United States Ninth Circuit

In a murder prosecution, Petitioner's habeas petition is granted, where a comparative juror analysis, in combination with other facts in the record, demonstrated that the prosecutor's purported race-neutral reasons for striking at least one of the jurors were pretexts for racial discrimination.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/12/2008
• Decided 07/07/2009
• Published 07/07/2009

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  A. WALLACE TASHIMA and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges, and ROBERT J. TIMLIN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Albert Joel Kutchins, Berkeley, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michele Swanson, Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent-appellee.