Legal Opinion
Miller-El v. Dretke
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 13, 2005No. 03-9659PublishedCited by 1,668 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
Two years ago, we ordered that a certificate of appealability, under 28 U. S. C. § 2253(c), be issued to habeas petitioner Miller-El, affording review of the District Court’s rejection of the claim that prosecutors in his capital murder trial made peremptory strikes of potential jurors based on race. Today we find Miller-El entitled to prevail on that claim and order relief under § 2254.
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In the course of robbing a Holiday Inn in Dallas, Texas, in late 1985, Miller-El and his accomplices bound and gagged *236two hotel employees, whom Miller-El then shot, killing one and severely injuring the…
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