Legal Opinion
William Weaver,petitioner-Appellee v. Michael Bowersox,respondent-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 23, 2001No. 99-3462PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYE, Circuit Judge.
The State of Missouri appeals from the judgment of the district court granting William Weaver’s petition for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court determined that Weaver’s Fourteenth Amendment rights under the Equal Protection Clause were violated when the state prosecutor exercised two peremptory strikes against black venire-persons during Weaver’s murder trial. We reverse; we also remand to the district court to address the remaining twenty-one issues raised in Weaver’s petition.
BACKGROUND
On July 19, 1988, a St. Louis County jury convicted…
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