A defense lawyer told an Atlanta-based federal appeals court panel on Thursday that a trial judge shouldn’t have considered that prosecutors were African-American in rejecting defense claims that the prosecutors improperly struck black members of the jury pool.
Hanging in the balance before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit are convictions in a major sex trafficking case tried in 2012 by the U.S. attorney’s office in Atlanta. Following a trial before U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr., Solomon Mustafa was convicted of various crimes involving young women, including forcing the women into prostitution. Mustafa is serving a life sentence.
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