Legal Opinion
Floyd Mayes v. Jeff Premo
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 27, 2014No. 12-35461PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURGUIA, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Floyd Mayes was convicted in Oregon state court of felony murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, and second-degree assault. He was sentenced to 274 months in prison. The district court denied Mayes’s petition for habeas corpus, which alleged (1) the prosecutor who tried his case struck a venireman on the basis of race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause, and (2) a hearsay statement was admitted at his trial in violation of the Confrontation Clause. We affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
A. The Crime
On December 11, 1994, while…
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