Legal Opinion
Caldwell v. Maloney, etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 4, 1998No. 98-1511PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Michael Caldwell, an African-American man, was tried in Massachusetts state court in 1986 for the rape, sexual assault, and kidnapping of two women, who were white. During jury selection, defense counsel timely objected to four of the prosecutor’s peremptory challenges, asserting that the prosecutor had purposefully struck all the black 1 jurors on the basis of their race. The trial judge overruled the objection, and Caldwell was ultimately convicted on all charges by a jury that had no black members. These convictions were reversed by the Massachusetts Appeals Court on…
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