Legal Opinion
Pemberthy v. Beyer
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 16, 1994No. Nos. 92-5633, 92-5641PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ALITO, Circuit Judge:
The State of New Jersey has appealed from two orders of the district court granting Gabriel Pemberthy’s and Rigoberto Monca-da’s petitions for writs of habeas corpus. The district court held that the prosecutor at the petitioners’ joint trial violated their equal protection rights by peremptorily challenging five prospective jurors. After conducting a hearing regarding the prosecutor’s reasons for these challenges, the district court held that the prosecutor had dismissed the jurors in question simply because they were Latinos and not because of a…
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