Legal Opinion
Hardcastle v. Horn
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 14, 2004No. 01-9006PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROTH, Circuit Judge.
In 1982, Donald Hardcastle was charged by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office with murder, arson, and burglary. He was tried before a jury in the Court of Common Pleas, convicted on all counts, and sentenced to death. In both his direct appeal and state collateral review proceedings, Hardcastle asserted, inter alia, that the assistant district attorney who conducted the jury selection at his trial exercised her peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner, thus violating the constitutional principle recognized by the Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky,…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
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- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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