Legal Opinion
Durant v. Strack
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided June 19, 2001No. 1:98-cv-07993PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BLOCK, District Judge.
Petitioner Thurman Durant (“Durant”) filed this petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging his January 1996 judgment of conviction in New York Supreme Court, Queens County, for criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and in the seventh degree. The petition asserts that the trial court (1) permitted the prosecutor to violate Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and (2) violated Durant’s Sixth Amendment right to a public trial. On May 19, 2000, the Court referred the petition to…
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