United States v. Ricky Davis

McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.

Ricky Davis appeals from a final judgment entered in the District Court1 for the Eastern District of Missouri upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of possession of a firearm by a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C.App. § 1202(a)(1). For reversal, Davis raised several issues, including the claim that the government used a disproportionate number of its peremptory challenges during voir dire to strike prospective black jurors, in violation of his sixth amendment right to an impartial jury.

Following Davis’s trial and while his appeal was pending before this court, the…