Legal Opinion
Clay Anthony Ford v. Larry Norris
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 21, 1995No. 94-3469PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
The Director of the Arkansas Department of Corrections appeals from a district court 1 order granting a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to Clay Anthony Ford, who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. The district court set aside Ford’s conviction because the prosecutor in Ford’s case exercised peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory fashion. Ford v. Lockhart, 861 F.Supp. 1447 (E.D.Ark.1994). We affirm.
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Ford, who is black, was charged with capital murder under Arkansas law for shooting a white Arkansas State Trooper. During jury…
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