Legal Opinion
United States v. Travles Russell Lane
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 25, 1989No. 88-5542PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILKINS, Circuit Judge:
Travles Russell Lane, a black male, appeals his conviction of theft of personal property in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 661 (West 1976). He contends that he was denied equal protection because the prosecutor used peremptory challenges to strike one black prospective petit juror and one black prospective alternate juror in violation of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). We affirm.
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In Batson, the Supreme Court ruled that a prosecutor’s discriminatory use of peremptory challenges to exclude blacks from a petit jury violated a black…
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