United States v. Rondell Herbert Garrison

BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge:

Rondell Herbert Garrison alleges that the prosecutor at his trial for bank robbery used peremptory strikes to remove black persons from his jury in a discriminatory manner, in violation of his fourteenth amendment rights as detailed in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 107 S.Ct. 708, 93 L.Ed.2d 649 (1987). The trial court held that the peremptory challenges were exercised for race-neutral reasons. Because the trial court’s findings of fact are not clearly erroneous, we affirm.

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