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FLOYD v. GARRISON

No. 92-3130EA.

996 F.2d 947 (1993)

Mattie Ruth FLOYD, As Administratrix of the Estate of Jason L.C. Floyd, Deceased, Appellant, v. Marty GARRISON, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Wesley Hall, Jr., Little Rock, AR, argued (John Wesley Hall, Jr. and Craig Lambert, on the brief), for appellant.

Thomas M. Carpenter, Little Rock, AR, argued, for appellee.

Before FAGG and MAGILL, Circuit Judges, and STUART, Senior District Judge.

FAGG, Circuit Judge.

Mattie Ruth Floyd, a black, brought this civil rights action alleging officer Marty Garrison, a white, used unreasonable and unlawful deadly force by shooting and killing Jason L.C. Floyd. Floyd moved to dissolve the jury pool before trial, and moved for a new trial after the jury returned a verdict for Garrison, because only one of the forty prospective jurors was black. The district court denied the...

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