Collado v. Miller

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

AMON, District Judge.

Petitioner Arecio Collado seeks habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner contends that his conviction should be vacated because his trial jury was unconstitutionally selected under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). Specifically, petitioner argues that the prosecutor im-permissibly exercised his peremptory challenges during voir dire to exclude allegedly Hispanic jurors. For the reasons discussed herein, the petition is denied.

Background

Petitioner Collado, who is Hispanic, was indicted in 1996 in…