GARRETT v. MORRIS

No. 86-1481.

815 F.2d 509 (1987)

Gerald Duane GARRETT, Appellant, v. Terry MORRIS and Attorney General of the State of Missouri, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1987.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Toby H. Hollander, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Stephen D. Hawke, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for appellees.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, HEANEY and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 29, 1987.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court denying Gerald Duane Garrett's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Garrett argues, among other things, that the State's exercise of its peremptory challenges to exclude all black jurors from the petit jury panel at his murder trial violated his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Because the record in...

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