U.S. v. Jones, No. 3:98cr221 (E.D.Va.) (36 F.Supp.2d 304) (January 26, 1999) (Judge Richard L. Williams)
Loaded on Feb. 1, 1999
published in Punch and Jurists
February 01, 1999
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Selective Prosecution/Enforcement.
Here the Court rejected a claim of racial discrimination that arose from the state prosecutor's practice of referring all criminal cases involving guns to federal authorities, where the jury-pool make-up contained significantly less Blacks.
This is another strange decision from the Fourth Circuit. While it involved serious claims …
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