United States v. Grant

RILEY, Circuit Judge.

Janice Grant (Grant) was convicted by a jury of second degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Erasmo Porter (Porter). During Grant’s trial, the district court1 sustained the government’s gender based challenge to three of Grant’s peremptory strikes, and excluded the testimony of Grant’s proposed witness, Dawn Hare (Hare). Grant appeals the district court’s rulings regarding the peremptory challenges and the exclusion of Hare’s testimony. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

During the early morning hours of July 3, 2007, a group of people, including Grant and Porter,…