U.S. v. HAMILTON

Nos. 87-5100 to 87-5105.

850 F.2d 1038 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Henry HAMILTON, Jr., Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Geraldine HAMILTON, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ethel HAMILTON, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Charles BLAKE, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas BROWN, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony Jerome WASHINGTON, a/k/a Kojak, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 29, 1988.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Capers Gamewell Barr, III, John Frank Hardaway (Lionel S. Lofton, Michael P. O'Connell, Stuart A. Feldman, David P. McCann, on brief), for defendants-appellants.

John Michael Barton, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Vinton D. Lide, U.S. Atty., J. Anthony Mabry, Third Year Law Student, on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HALL, MURNAGHAN and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied September 7, 1988.

K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

This is a consolidated appeal from the district court's determination that the government met its burden of presenting racially neutral explanations for the use of its peremptory challenges during the selection of the jury for defendants' trial. The district court, after an evidentiary hearing, found that the defendants had established a prima facie case of purposeful discrimination...

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