U.S. v. PEREZ

No. 93-1320.

35 F.3d 632 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Julio PEREZ, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond E. Gillespie, Cambridge, for appellant.

Frank A. Libby, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Donald K. Stern, U.S. Atty., was on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, COFFIN and CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), from the trial court's allowance of a prosecutor's peremptory challenge to a Spanish surnamed juror. Finding that it was not clearly erroneous for the trial court to reject appellant's claim that the strike was racially motivated, we affirm the judgment of conviction.

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