Mahaffey v. Ramos

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2009-12-21

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BAUER, Circuit Judge. Jerry Mahaffey burglarized a home in which he murdered one person, raped and murdered another, and attempted to murder a third. In seeking relief from his life sentence, he contests not that he is actually innocent of these crimes, but that he deserves a new trial because the prosecution improperly used peremptory challenges to exclude members of his race…

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