United States ex rel. Neumann v. Page

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ALE SI A, District Judge.

Petitioner Lawrence Neumann, an Illinois state prisoner, seeks habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Neumann alleges that, during jury selection at his trial, the state prosecutor exercised peremptory challenges in a discriminatory manner. As such, Neumann contends that the state violated the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee to a petit jury composed of a fair cross section of the community (incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment) and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Respondent answers that petitioner’s…