Legal Opinion
Abdul Majid, Bashir Hameed v. Leonard A. Portuondo, Robert Kuhlmann
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 26, 2005No. Docket 03-2608, 03-2610PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge.
The petitioners, Abdul Majid and Bashir. Hameed, appeal from a judgment dated August 7, 2003, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Jack B. Weinstein, Judge) denying their consolidated applications for writs of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. 1 They claim that in a 1986 jury trial in New York Supreme Court, Queens County, which resulted in a judgment of conviction against each petitioner for second-degree murder, prosecutors utilized peremptory challenges of potential jurors in a racially discriminatory manner.
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2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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3Cited by22 opinions
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