Legal Opinion
United States v. Lawrence Lewis, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 26, 1988No. 87-1030PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:
Lawrence Lewis, Jr., was tried and convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 1111 (1982) 1 for the second-degree murder of his two-year-old stepson, Jordan Francis..
On appeal, the defendant challenges: 1) the prosecutor’s use of a peremptory challenge to excuse a black juror; 2) the trial court’s exclusion of expert psychiatric testimony concerning the defendant’s state of mind; and 3) the trial court’s admission of evidence concerning a prior battery of the same child by the defendant.
On the evening of June 17, 1986, the defendant brought his unconscious stepson to the hospital…
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