Criminal
Oct. 28, 2015
9th Circuit finds prosecutor excluded juror based on race, reverses murder conviction
A divided 9th Circuit panel held that habeas petitioner was entitled to a new trial because the prosecutor had excluded a black juror on the basis of race.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A prosecutor's hand-scrawled ratings of prosepctive jurors may have helped pave the way for a new trial for a man facing the death penalty following a 1989 double murder conviction.
Crittenden, who is black, is entitled to habeas relief because the prosecutor had been "substantially motivated by race" in excluding an African American juror, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel he...
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