JEFFERSON v. U.S.

No. 92-CF-309.

631 A.2d 13 (1993)

David JEFFERSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip A. Sechler, Washington, DC, appointed by the court, for appellant.

Peter H. White, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher, Thomas C. Black, and Renee Y. Webb, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and TERRY and KING, Associate Judges.


TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant Jefferson was convicted of distributing cocaine.1 He raised an entrapment defense, asserting that the police "coerced him to do this act." On appeal he contends that the government used its peremptory challenges in a discriminatory manner, in violation of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and that the evidence was insufficient...

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