Legal Opinion
Mahaffey v. Ramos
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 21, 2009No. 08-3916PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Jerry Mahaffey burglarized a home in which he murdered one person, raped and murdered another, and attempted to murder a third. In seeking relief from his life sentence, he contests not that he is actually innocent of these crimes, but that he deserves a new trial because the prosecution improperly used peremptory challenges to exclude members of his race from the jury. But the state court found that the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges was motivated by legitimate, race-neutral concerns. As this finding was not clearly unreasonable, we affirm the district court’s…
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