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U.S. v. TAYLOR

Nos. 05-2007, 05-2008p.

509 F.3d 839 (2007)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Styles TAYLOR and Keon Thomas, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 7, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Benson, Daniel L. Bella, David E. Hollar (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Hammond, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Lauren Robel (argued), Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, IN, Kent R. Carlson, Carlson & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before ROVNER, WILLIAMS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Styles Taylor and Keon Thomas, both African-American, were jointly tried for the armed robbery of a gun store and the murder of its elderly owner, who was Caucasian. The government sought the death penalty for both men, but ultimately they were sentenced to life imprisonment after the jury found them guilty. Taylor and Thomas contend that their convictions are tainted by the government's use of peremptory challenges to strike African Americans...

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