Garraway v. Phillips

DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:

Mark Garraway appeals from the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for habeas corpus relief by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Rakoff, J.). A jury convicted Garraway of second-degree murder in 1997. During voir dire, Garraway objected to the prosecution’s exercise of peremptory strikes to remove seven African-Americans from the petit jury pool. The New York Supreme Court, Bronx County, ruled that Garraway had established a prima facie case under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and…