Legal Opinion
Edwin Galarza v. John P. Keane, Sing Sing Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 8, 2001No. 1999PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Judge WALKER dissents in a separate opinion.
SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-appellant Edwin Galarza (“Galarza”) appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (McKenna, /.) denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court held, inter alia, that Galarza failed to show that the prosecutor’s exercise of peremptory challenges to strike Hispanic members of the venire at trial violated Galarza’s constitutional rights under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). We find that the trial…
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