Legal Opinion
Pecor v. Walls
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 8, 2003No. 01-3916PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Gregory Pecor was convicted of murder, armed robbery, and residential burglary, and after exhausting his state court remedies, he filed a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, arguing that the state prosecutor improperly exercised race-based peremptory challenges against African-American venirepersons. The district court denied Mr. Pecor’s petition, and on appeal Mr. Pecor focuses exclusively on the strike against potential juror Chuck Edmonds. We affirm.
During jury selection for Mr. Pecor’s trial, the prosecution exercised four of its first five peremptory challenges against African-American…
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