Legal Opinion
United States v. Styles Taylor
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 20, 2015No. 13-2814, 13-3469PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 2000 an almost totally deaf 73-year-old, the féderally licensed owner of a gun store in Hammond, Indiana, was shot to death and the store robbed of many of its guns. Taylor and Thomas, the appellants, were indicted for the murder and robbery and in 2004 convicted by a jury of a variety of federal crimes, including murder in the course of a robbery, and were sentenced to life in prison. The convictions were vacated in 2011 because of a possible violation of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), arising from the government’s striking a…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Arizona v. FulminanteSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Carey v. MusladinSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
- Stephen Buckley v. J. Michael FitzsimmonsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
- Ronald Woods v. Richard L. DuggerCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1991
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