Legal Opinion
McGahee v. Alabama Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 4, 2009No. 07-15602PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
Defendant Earl Jerome McGahee was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death by the State of Alabama. McGa-hee appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for the writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction. We hold that the Alabama state courts unreasonably applied clearly established federal law as determined by the Supreme Court. We further hold that the State violated McGahee’s Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), by using its peremptory…
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