Legal Opinion
Sorto v. Herbert
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 10, 2007No. 05-0728-prPublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:
Petitioner Valentin Sorto, convicted of murder and related offenses in New York state court, petitions for a federal writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the state courts unreasonably misapplied Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 97-98, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and its progeny. During jury selection, Sorto twice asserted that the prosecution was discriminating against minority jurors in its exercise of peremptory strikes; both challenges were denied for failure to establish a prima facie ease of discrimination. Resolution of the Batson issue in this…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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- Johnson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
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