Henry Lovejoy, Sr. v. United States

KORNMANN, District Judge.

Appellant, Henry Lovejoy, Sr., was convicted of attempted sexual abuse in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(A) and (B). The District Court 1 sentenced Lovejoy to 121 months imprisonment. Lovejoy claims the District Court erred in failing to find a violation of the Equal Protection Clause 2 when the government exercised a peremptory challenge to exclude a black person from the jury, in admitting as evidence statements made by the victim’s mother, and in failing to suppress incriminating statements Lovejoy made to F.B.I. agents. We affirm.

I. Background

Lovejoy was charged…