Legal Opinion
Gray v. Brady
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 4, 2008No. Civil Action 06-10395-GAOPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
O’TOOLE, District Judge.
I. Background
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner, Korey Gray, was convicted in the Massachusetts Superior Court of unlawfully distributing cocaine and of doing so in a public park. He appealed his convictions to the Massachusetts Appeals Court (“Appeals Court”) and argued that he was entitled a new trial because the trial judge’s failure to require the prosecutor to articulate his reasons for a peremptory challenge of a prospective juror resulted in a violation both of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment…
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