Legal Opinion
Larry Brown v. Walter Kelly, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 19, 1992No. 1504, Docket 91-2543PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
We review on this appeal the reasons given by a state prosecutor for peremptorily excusing four black venirepersons from sitting as members of a petit jury on the murder trial of Larry Brown, a black defendant. Brown appeals from an October 18, 1991 order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Mishler, J.) denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner was convicted in New York in 1985 on two counts of murder in the second degree and one count of robbery in the first degree. His petition for habeas, relief attacks these…
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