Gray v. Brady

LAPLANTE, District Judge.

Korey Gray appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus from his state-court convictions for distributing cocaine and for doing so in a public park. The appeal presents a single issue: whether the state courts violated Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and its progeny, Hernandez v. New York, 500 U.S. 352, 111 S.Ct. 1859, 114 L.Ed.2d 395 (1991), and Powers v. Ohio, 499 U.S. 400, 111 S.Ct. 1364, 113 L.Ed.2d 411 (1991), by permitting the prosecutor’s peremptory challenge to an Hispanic juror without…