Legal Opinion
Turner v. Marshall
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 29, 1997No. 96-56462PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:
California state prisoner Robert Turner appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Turner argues that the State engaged in purposeful *1250discrimination in selecting his trial jury. He further claims that the state trial court committed prejudicial error when it allowed the jury to hear the readback of testimony in the absence of the defendant or his counsel.
We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 & 2253, and we affirm in part and reverse in part. Although we agree that the readback of testimony was harmless error, we…
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