Legal Opinion
Akins v. Easterling
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 5, 2011No. 08-6161PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-Appellant Terrancé Akins was convicted in Tennessee state court of one count of especially aggravated robbery, and the Tennessee appellate courts upheld his conviction. He now appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We certified two issues for appeal: whether the state trial court erred in (1) permitting the prosecution to exercise a peremptory challenge to excuse an African American prospective juror, and (2) permitting Akins to represent himself at trial. Because we cannot conclude that the…
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