BROWN v. ALEXANDER

Docket No. 07-1780-pr.

543 F.3d 94 (2008)

Tarkisha BROWN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. George B. ALEXANDER, Chairman, New York State Division of Parole, Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 22, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey J. Resetarits, Shearman & Sterling LLP (Seth M. Kean, of counsel), New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Rafael A. Curbelo, Assistant District Attorney (Robert T. Johnson, Bronx County District Attorney, Joseph N. Ferdenzi, Nancy D. Killian, Assistant District Attorneys, of counsel), Bronx, NY, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before: WINTER and SACK, Circuit Judges, and MURTHA, District Judge.


SACK, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-Appellant Tarkisha Brown appeals from a judgment entered on March 30, 2007, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jed S. Rakoff, Judge) denying her petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. She asserts that the state trial court unreasonably applied Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), when...

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