Legal Opinion
United States v. Lemurel Williams
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 26, 2016No. 15-1194PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Lemurel Williams was convicted of being a felon in possession of a gun. Williams’s first argument on appeal is that the prosecution unconstitutionally rejected potential jurors because of their race. We need not decide that issue because we agree with Williams’s second argument: a new trial is needed because the totality of the circumstances regarding the jury’s verdict was impermissibly coercive.
I. BACKGROUND
Milwaukee police officers saw Williams walking in the middle of the road and talking on a cell phone at 1:30 in the morning. When they asked him to stop, he fled,…
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