Price v. Cain

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

Edward Price, an African-American, was tried and convicted by an all-white jury of aggravated rape and sentenced to life in prison. After exhausting his remedies in state court, Price filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. That petition claimed that the state trial court erred when it overruled Price’s Batson challenge on the ground that Price did not make a prima facie showing that the State had exercised its peremptory challenges on the basis of race. The district court denied…