Legal Opinion
Lawrence Capers, Leonard Capers v. Harry K. Singletary, as Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Florida
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 23, 1993No. 92-4016PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
The defendants, Lawrence Capers and Leonard Capers, appeal from the denial of their habeas corpus petition by the district court. Because the defendants failed to establish a prima facie showing of purposeful discrimination in the state’s use of peremptory challenges, we AFFIRM.
I. BACKGROUND
The defendants were convicted by a Florida jury of three counts of third degree murder. The charged offenses occurred during the McDuffie riots, a series of civil disturbances in Dade County precipitated by the acquittal of several white police officers charged with the homicide of a…
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