Jefferson v. United States

TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant Jefferson was convicted of distributing cocaine.1 He raised an entrapment defense, asserting that the police “coerced him to do this act.” On appeal he contends that the government used its peremptory challenges in a discriminatory manner, in violation of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and that the evidence was insufficient to permit the jury to find that he was predisposed to distribute drugs. Although we agree that the procedure employed by the trial court in considering the Batson claim was not what it should have…