Green v. Travis

ORDER

WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.

This petition was filed on November 13, 2002. Petitioner, represented by counsel, claims:

Conviction [was] obtained by prosecutor’s discriminatory use of peremptory challenge during jury selection in violation of constitutional rights to equal protection under the law.

Supporting Facts:

At trial, the prosecutor exercised each of his first five peremptory challenges to exclude minority jurors. Defense counsel made a Batson motion asserting that the prosecutor’s pattern of exclusion established a prima facie case of discrimination. The trial court, wrongly…