Ambrose v. Booker

OPINION AND ORDER CONDITIONALLY GRANTING PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR A WRIT OF HA-BEAS CORPUS

THOMAS L. LUDINGTON, District Judge.

A Kent County jury convicted Joseph Ambrose (Ambrose) on two counts of armed robbery, one count of carjacking, and one count of felony-firearm possession in April 2001. But a computer glitch in effect at the time of Ambrose’s trial produced a jury venire with a statistically significant “underrepresentation of minorities.” Ambrose v. Booker, 684 F.3d 638, 641 (6th Cir.2012). So although he was entitled to a jury drawn from a fair cross-section of his community, see…