Legal Opinion

State v. Holloway

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided January 24, 1989No. 13020PublishedCited by 108 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtGlass, J.

The principal issue on this appeal is whether the defendant, Anthony Holloway, has established that the state discriminatorily employed a peremptory challenge to exclude a black venireman from the jury that convicted him of the crime of felony murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54c.1 The defendant appeals from the judgment rendered by the trial court as a result of the guilty verdict of the jury.

The jury could reasonably have found the following facts. On July 12, 1985, Roy Lee MacIntyre and his friend, Ernest Reed, were riding in MacIntyre’s automobile in Bridgeport. The defendant…

2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. California v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  4. State v. EvansSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1973
  5. Carter v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1981

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3Cited by108 opinions

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  2. State v. HinesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1998
  3. People v. ScottCalifornia Supreme Court · 2015
  4. State v. BrownSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1995
  5. State v. HintonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1993

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