United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's denial of defendants' habeas corpus petitions claiming that the prosecutor's peremptory challenge to a Hispanic juror was motivated by racial bias, is affirmed, where a state court does not violate a defendant's constitutional rights by denying a Batson motion based on a prosecutor's credible explanation that he or she made an honest mistake in exercising a peremptory challenge to dismiss the wrong juror.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/14/2013
• Published 06/14/2013

Judges

• GOULD

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel