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ROBINSON v. U.S.

No. 02-CF-320.

878 A.2d 1273 (2005)

Leon ROBINSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 21, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jaclyn S. Frankfurt, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, was on the brief, for appellant.

Mary B. McCord, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher and Glenn S. Leon, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, at the time the brief was filed for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, GLICKMAN, Associate Judge, and STEADMAN, Senior Judge.

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

The exercise of peremptory challenges to discriminate against prospective jurors on the basis of race or gender is unconstitutional. Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 88, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986); J.E.B. v. Alabama, 511 U.S. 127, 145-46, 114 S.Ct. 1419, 128 L.Ed.2d 89 (1994). Each type of discrimination offends the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth...

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