Legal Opinion
Orlando Rosa v. Howard A. Peters, Iii, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 30, 1994No. 92-3258PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-appellee Orlando Rosa (“Rosa”) was convicted of murder and attempted murder in Illinois state court following a jury trial. Rosa challenges the murder conviction, contending that the instructions given his jury violated his federal due process rights. Rosa also asserts that the prosecutor improperly excluded Blacks from his jury as forbidden by Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and extended by Powers v. Ohio, 499 U.S. 400, 111 S.Ct. 1364, 113 L.Ed.2d 411 (1991). Howard Peters, the Director of the Illinois Department of…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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