Legal Opinion
Alonzo Johnson v. Claude Finn
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 8, 2011No. 10-15641PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
Alonzo Deon Johnson and Darrell Thompson, California state prisoners, challenge the prosecution’s use of peremptory strikes to exclude black jurors in their trial. A magistrate judge, after holding an evidentiary hearing at which the prosecutor testified, found that he had purposefully discriminated on the basis of race in exercising a peremptory strike against one of the black jurors. The district judge, without holding a new evidentiary hearing, rejected the magistrate judge’s finding as to the prosecutor’s lack of credibility in asserting race-neutral…
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