MEMORANDUM OF DECISION ON DEFENDANTS' OBJECTION TO GOVERNMENT'S PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES
NEWMAN, District Judge.
This case poses the troublesome issue of what limits, if any, should be imposed on a federal prosecutor's use of peremptory jury challenges when such challenges are used frequently to exclude Blacks from serving on criminal juries. The issue arises in the midst of jury selection in a case involving two defendants, one of whom is Black. The jury selection...
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