Legal Opinion
Joseph Rico v. Mary Leftridge-Byrd the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 14, 2003No. 01-4150PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BARRY, Circuit Judge.
The issue before us is whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision upholding Joseph Rico’s conviction and sentence against a Batson challenge based on the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges to strike Italian-American prospective jurors was contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States. 1
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On February 21, 1992, Joseph Rico was convicted by a jury in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County of first-degree murder and criminal conspiracy, and was…
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