Legal Opinion
United States v. Evester Gordon
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 8, 1992No. 91-3642PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Evester Gordon of two counts of distributing heroin, and the district court sentenced him to thirty-three months in prison. Gordon appeals his conviction and sentence, arguing that the district court erred by (1) denying his Batson1 objection to the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges to exclude black venireper-sons; (2) denying his motion for a judgment of acquittal on the ground of insufficient evidence; and (3) sentencing him to thirty-three months in prison in the mistaken belief that he was subject to a sentence of that length for each…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- United States v. Craig Young-BeyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
- United States v. Edward Theodore MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
- United States v. HoelscherCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
- United States v. Juan Ramon MartinezCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
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3Cited by28 opinions
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- United States v. Willie WrightCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1997
- United States v. McKnightCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- United States v. LopezCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- United States v. Michael Gandolfo AlbaneseCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1999
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