Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge LUTTIG wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Judge NIEMEYER joined.
OPINION
LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:
Larry Blanding, a black, former state legislator in South Carolina, was convicted by a jury of two counts of extortion under the Hobbs Act. During jury selection, his counsel peremptorily struck a juror who had responded in a jury questionnaire that he had three bumper stickers on his car that...
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