United States v. Alan Harold Roebke

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Alan Roebke was convicted of converting to his own use grain pledged to the Commodity Credit Corporation. A jury found him guilty on each of five charges in the case, and he was sentenced to 30 months in prison. On appeal Mr. Roebke contends that the District Court 1 erred in overruling his Batson challenge to the government’s peremptory strike of an African-American jury venire member. For the reasons given below, we affirm.

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The District Court’s denial of a Batson challenge is reviewed for clear error. United States v. Moore, 895 F.2d 484, 485 (8th Cir.1990).…