One day after a lively argument that focused on a defendant’s complaints about race influencing the selection of jurors who heard his sex trafficking case, an Atlanta-based federal appeals court panel has upheld the defendant’s convictions with virtually no discussion of the issues he raised.
Friday’s unpublished, unsigned ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit totaled less than three pages. It simply said the judges found “no harmful error” in the 2012 trial of Solomon Mustafa, who was convicted of various crimes involving young women, including forcing the women into prostitution. He is serving a life sentence.
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