# Appendix — Mathews v. United States

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- **Collection:** Supreme Court brief
- **Document type:** Appendix
- **Published:** January 1, 1988
- **Citation:** 485 U.S. 58

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UNITED STATES ¥

MATHEWS 325

Cite we 00) F 2d 325 (uh Cir. 1986)

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UNITED STATES of America
Piaintiff-Appel'ee

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Frederick MATHEWS,
Defendant-Appellant

No. 85-2904

United States Court of Appeals
Seventh Circuit

Argued June 12, 1986
Decided Oct. 9, 1986

Defendant was convicted in the United
States District Court for the Eastern Dis-
trict of Wisconsin, Thomas J. Curran, J., of
accepting thing of value as public official
for official act to be performed by him, and
he appealed. The Court of Appeals, Bauer,
Chief Judge, held that: (1) defendant was
required to admit all elements of crime
with which he was charged, including io-
tent, before he could plead entrapment, (2)
exclusion of veniremen who expressed mus-
givings about covert tape recordings was
proper, and (3) prosecutor gave sufficient

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explanation for its use of peremptory;
strikes to exclude ali blacks from jury

Affirmed

1. Criminal Law ©°37(1)

Defendant must admit al) elements of
crime with which he is charged, including
intent, before he may plead entrapment,
declining to follow United States v. Caron
588 F.2d 851 (ist Cir); United States »
Henry, 749 F.2d 203 (Sth Cir); United
States v. Kelly, 748 F.2d 691 (D.C.Cir.)
United States v. Demma, 523 F.2d 981 (9th
Cir.); Crisp v. United States, 262 F.2d 68
(4th Cir.)

2 Jury €°33(2)

Exclusion for cause of severa! venire
men who expressed misgivings about cov
ert tape recordings did not deny bribery
defendant constitutiona! right to impartia
jury fepresenting cross section of commu
nity. U.S.C.A. Const Amend. 6

3. Jury © 121

Finding that Government did not inten
tionally discriminate when exercising its
peremptory challenges to remove al! blacks
from jury was sufficiently supported by
prosecutor's explanation for remcva! of
each individual! juror, fact that key witness
es for both sides were black, thus discount
ing any advantage a discriminating prose
cutor might perceive in striking biacks
from jury, and lack of evidence prosecuto:
had maintained pattern or practice of strik
ing blacks from juries in cases where de
fendants were biack

Jeffrey A. Kaufman, Gimbe! Gimbe! &
Reilly, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant-ap
pellant

Jan E. Kearney, Asst US. Atty. Mi
waukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellee

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and COF
FEY and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges

326

BAUER, Chief Judge

The defendant, Frederick Mathews, was
convicted of receiving money as an officia
of the Smal! Business Administration in
violation of 18 USC. § 20l(g), He ap
peals, alleging three grounds for reversa!
tat the district court erred by refusing to
low Mathews to claim entrapment unless
Mathews admitted al) elements of the
erime, including the element of intent, that
the district court erred in excluding for
cause severa) veniremen who expressed
disapproval! of tape recording conversations
without the knowledge of al) parties; and
that the district court erred in denying
Mathews’ motion for s mistria! based on
the prosecution's use of peremptory strikes
to remove al! black veniremen from the
jury We find the district court committed
no error and affirm its judgment of convic
ton

I

Mathews was employed in the Milwaukee
office of the Sma) Business Administration
(“SBA”) as a Business Development Spe
cialist in charge of the “8A Program.”
The 8A Program is designed to aid smal!
businesses owned by socially and econom)
cally disadvantaged concerns. Applicants
for the 8A Program become clients of the
SBA. With the SBA serving as primary
contractor and the 8A client acting as sub
contractor, the SBA attempts to procure
government contracts on behalf of BA
chents and to help them perform on the
contract

The charge of which Mathews was con
victed concerns Mathews’ relauvonship with
James DeShazer. DeShazer is the presi
dent and owner of Midwest Knitting Mills
Midwest Knittung Mills was a participant in
the 8A Program and obtained severa) con
tracts through the SBA. Mathews was
DeShazer’s main contact at the SBA

The evidence at trial showed that Math
ews accepted loans from DeShazer (Math
ews says two, the government says more)
Mathews claims the loans, including the
loan involved in this case, were persona!
loans from DeShazer unrelated w Math

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ews’ duties at the SBA. The government
and DeShazer claim the loans were gratu
ties required by Mathews to obtain his co
operation in SBA matters

In support of its theory, the government
introduced evidence that included tape re
cordings of conversations between Mat!
ews and DeShazer discussing the loan tha:
resulted in Mathews’ arrest and prosecu
tion. These conversations had been covert
ly taped by DeShazer under the direction of
the FBI which began investigating Math
ews in response to s complaint by De
Shazer to a Navy purchasing agent regard
ing Mathews’ repeated requests for loans

The jury believed the government's ver
sion of the facts and convicted Mathews of
the charge of accepting 8 thing of value as
a public official for an official act to be
performed by him, a violation of 18 US (
§ 201g). The tria) judge entered judgmen:
accordingly and sentenced Mathews t
three years probation, the first two years
to be served under house arrest’ Mathews
appeals

I

Mathews claims the tria! court erred ir
denying his motion in limine to present
evidence on the defense of entrapment
Mathews asks us to reconsider the rule in
this circuit that requires a defendant wh
wishes to plead entrapment to admit s
elements of the crime, including the ele
ment of intent United States v. Rodgers
755 F.2d 533, 550 (7th Cir.1985), cert de
nied, — US —, 105 S.Ct 3532, 87
L.Ed.2d 652 (1985). He acknowledges that
this rule is in accord with the Third, Sixth
and Tenth circuits, but argues that a better
rule would require a defendant to admit
only the acts of a crime, not the intent
before being allowed to plead entrapment
Mathews cites cases from the First, Fifth
and D.C. circuits as examples of decisions
that follow this rule. United States +
Caron, 588 F.2d 85) (Ist Cir.1978); United
States v. Henry, 749 F.2d 203 (Sth Cir
1984) (en banc); United States v. Kelly
748 F.2d 691 (D.C.Cir.1984). Mathews does

mot ask us to go so far as those circuils

UNITED STATES +. MATHEWS

327

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Unat he claims allow a defendant to deny al!
elements of the cmme and at the same Ome
plead entrapment United States v. Dem-
ma, 523 F.2d 98) (9th Cir.1975); Crisp «
United States, 262 F.2d 68 (4th Cir.1958)

[1] Although we acknowledge some di-
versity of opinion among the circuits, we
see no reason to change our rule requiring
a defendant to admit all elements of the
erime before being allowed to plead entrap
ment. When a defendant pleads entrap
ment he is asserting that, although he had
criminal! intent, it was “the Government's
deception [that implanted) the enmina) de
sign in the mind of the defendant” Unit
ed States v. Russell, 411 US. 423, 436, 93
S.Ct 1637, 1645, 36 LEd2d 366 (1973)
United States v. Rodgers, 755 F.2d 533,
S50 (7th Cir.1985). We find this to be
inconsistent per se with the defense that
the defendant never had the requisite cmm-
ina) intent We see no reason to allow
Mathews or any defendant to plead these
defenses simultaneous!y

Ill

[2] Mathews also complains that the ex-
clusion for cause of severa! veniremen who
expressed misgivings about covert tape re
cordings created a jury skewed in favor of
the government and unrepresentatve of
the community. He argues that the tris!
judge should have conducted & more exten-
sive inquiry into the basis for the venire
men's objection to such evidence in order to
ascertain whether the veniremen felt they
could give the evidence its proper weight
despite the inita! reservavons

We disagree with Mathews for two rea
sons. First, a trial judge's questioning dur
ing voir dire is subject to limited review
In light of the epecia! circumstances of the
situation (to be outlined below) and the
great deference that we accord tria! judges
in this area, Wainwright » Wit, 469 US
412, 105 S.Ct 844, 83 LEd2d 841, 844
(1985), we see no rearon to overturn the
judgment of the trial court on the basis of
the exclusion of these veniremen Second.
the tra! judge called a side bar during vorr
dire to give Mathews’ counse! the opportu

nity to suggest an appropmate route for
the trina! court \& take regarding these ve
niremen. Mathews counse! expressed no
objection and asked the court to proceed as
it had been before the side bar. We find it
Gfficult tw accept Mathews belated allega
tions on appea! that the judge's achon tak
eo at Mathews’ request denied him hu
sixth amendment mght to an imparta! jury
representing 8 cross-section of the commu
nity

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The trial judge was forced to des
difficult and all too common situator
ing voir dire. The court had properly and
methodically questoned the veruremen as a
group sbout their limitations and buses
regarding the case After its first twenty
two questions, the court had excused on!y
six persons for cause. The court's twenty
third question inquired whether the venrre
mer had “any concern about tape recording
conversabons when one party w not aware
that it is being recorded” (Tria! Tran

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script at 43). One veniremen expressed
concern, and the court questioned her in
depth about whether her reservations

about the evidence gathering method wou.¢
interfere with her ability to weigh that
evidence, whether she stil! had reservatons
knowing that she would only hear the tapes
if they were found admissible by the court
according to the rules of evidence, anc
whether her reservatons would remain re
gardiess of the nature of the invesagston
When the veniremer contnued to express
doubt, the judge dismussed her

As acknowledged by counse! for both
sides, what followed was a cla c case of
potents! jurors jumping on th = pportunit)
to avoid jury duty by suddenly resizing
that they too shared the bias of the venire
man just dismissed Several veniremen im
mediately brought their newly discovered
problem with accepting covert tape record
ings to the attention of the trial judge
The judge dismissed the first bandwagoner
without further quesvoning. knowing the
venirermen had heard the examination of
the venireman just dismissed The judge

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dismissed the second and third followers
after they offered short explanauons of the
bas for their objecbons to taping When
a fourth vemreman suddenly discovered 8
deep-seated dutaste for covert taping, the
judge questioned her in depth and reit
erated that tapes might not even be intro
duced into evidence and would only be
heard if they were found sdmussibie accord
ing to the rules of evidence. The venire
men then relented, declared she could give
the evidence appropmate weight and was
retained on the panel. Undeterred, a fifth
venireman took up the mantle and voiced
objections to covert taping The court was
examining him further when stl another
venireman interrupted with quesvons re
garding the nature of the tapes

Seeing the direction that the voir dire
was going, the judge called a side bar. As
represented to this court at ors! argument
by both counse! (both of whom also served
as tria! counsel), the judge asked both par
ties for their preferences as to the appro
priate manner for the court to dea) with
this mass exodus of potenta!l juror
Mathews’ counse! admits that he did not
object to the actions that the judge had
taken up to that point and in fact encour
aged him to conunue

The judge then dismussed the venireman
he had been quer soning and dealt with the
remaining four veniremen who claimed
that they too disliked covert taping. The
judge questioned the first three of these
four in depth, released one and kept two
The fina! objyectung venwermnan was also re
eased

With the supply of potenua! jurors now
exhausted, the court called s recess. The
following day, the veniremen ex
pressed no misgivings sbout taping, and
the voir dire proceeded without further
probierm

new

B
We see nothing wrong with the tris
judge's conduct of the voir dire At least
six times, the judge conducted in depth

questioning in front of the pane! of venire
men as @ group regarding the leve! of bias

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necessary to demonstrate cause for being
excused from jury duty, bias that mus
remain regardiess of the rules of evidence
and the instructions of the judge. The
judge need not, as Mathews contends. in
every case question each juror individus!!)
regarding each possibie area of prejudice
We review the wor dire only & see
“whether the procedure used for tesung
impartalty created « reasonable assurance
that prejudice would be discovered if
present.” United States » Dellinger, 472
F.2d $40, 367 (7th Cir.1972), cert dened
410 U.S. 970, 98 S.Cu 1443, 35 L.Ed.2d 706
(1973). We “will not find that s tra! cour
abused its discretion in conductng vow dire
where there is ‘sufficient questoning &
produce, in light of the factual situatior
involved in the partcular tna! some basis
for a reasonably knowledgeable exercise of
the nght of challenge United States :

Hastings, 739 F.2d 1269, 12773 Tw Ce
1984), cert denied, 469 U.S. 1218, 105 $.Cr
1199, 84 L.Ed.2d 343 (1985) (citatons om:
ted) We may only reverse « tra! judges
decision on exclusion of veniremen for
couse if it i « “clear case” of prejudics
error, Wainwright » Witt 469 US. 412
105 S.Ct 844, 83 L.Ed.2d 841, B44 (1985

The judge's conduct easily satisfies this
tumited standard of renew and we accorc
ingly decline to disturb the tra! courts
decasion

Furthermore. Mathews had every oppor
tunity to object during voir dire and fae
to do so. The judge even asked the parve
how they wished him to proceed in hght o!
the developing problem with the venire
men's bias regarding covert taping Mat?
ews. by hus counsel encouraged the judg:
to continue as he had been before the sick
bar, which the judge did. This is clearly «
waiver and more of whatever night Mav
ews may have had to object to the conduc
of the worr dire

Finally, we fee! compelled also to now
that we are uncertain what harm Mathew
could claim even if the conduct of the vor’
dire would have been unproper The judg
did not fail tw exclude for cause & venire
mar that Mathews wished excluded (w)

UNITED STATES +. MATHEWS

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would have forced Mathews to use a per
emptory strike and thus potentally preju
dice his case), and the trial judge did not
conduct the worr dire eo that a venireman
who may or may not have been prejudiced
remained on the pane! (which would have
resulted in the same harm) Instead, the
judge immediately excluded veniremen who
expressed some bias against the govern
ment without first questioning them fur
ther on an individual! basis We are doubt
ful whether this harmed Mathews in any
way or whether any harm that did result
can be the basis of & sixth amendment
challenge. As stated by the Ninth Circuit
in addressing « situation in which the ap
pellant contended that the tria! judge had
erred in excusing two jurors for cause on
his own movon
Moreover, regardiess of the propriety
of excusing two veniremen, we would not
be inclined to reverse The defendant
ented to an array of imparua! jurors to
whom he may direct his peremptory cha!
lenges but, having been provided with
such a panei, he suffers no prejudice if
juror, even without sufficient cause, is
excused by the Court
United States v. Calhoun, S42 F.2d 1004
1103 (9th Cir.1976), cert denied gud nom
Stephenson v United States, 429 US
1064, 97 S.Ct 792, SO L.Ed 2d 78) (1977)

TV
Mathews also contends the tna! court
erred in denying his motion for mistria
based on the prosecution's use of its per
emptory strikes to exclude al! blacks from
the jury. We disagree

“
The Supreme Court recently addressed
th wsue in Batson wv. Aentucky, — US

——, 106 S.Ct 1712, 90 L.Ed 2d 69 (1986
and the principles elucidated there contro!
this case. In Batson, the court established
that “the State's privilege to strike individ
va! jurors through peremptory challenges
is subject to the commands of the Equa!
Protection Clause,” Batson, 106 S.Ct at
1718, and

the Equa! Protection Clause for

bids the prosecutor to challenge potenta
jurors solely on account of their race or or
the assumption that black jurors as «
group wil! be unable impartally to consider
the State's case aginst a black defend
ant” /@ ot 1719. When « defendant «
leges the prosecuuon has used its peremp
tory challenges in e dwcriminatory fashior
therefore. the genera! principles of Equa
Protection apply. /d at 1719

The burden is on the defendant inita!!)
to make “a prima facie case of purposely
dweriminaton by showing that the tota!:ty
of the relevant facts gives rise w an infer
ence of discriminatory purpose id wt
1721. To make this showing, it is not nec
essary for the defendant tw show that the
prosecutors eclons m past cases have
demonstrated a pattern or pracuce of dis
emmuinatory use of peremptory challenges
id at 1720-21. “A defendant may ested
lsh s proma facie case of purposefu! du
crimination in selection of the petit jury
solely on evidence concerning the prosec.
tor's exercise of peremptory challenges a
the defendant's trial To establish such «
case the defendant first must show that he
is & member of & cognizable racia! group

and that the prosecutor has exercise:

peremptory challenges to remove from Ur<
venure members of the defendants race
/d at 1722-23. Then, “the defendant mus:
show Wat these facts and any other rele
vant curcumstances rawe an inference Wa
the prosecutor used [peremptory che
lenges) to exclude the veniremen from the
peut jury on sccount of thew rece” /d a:
1723. These “relevant circumstances” may
welude @ pattern of peremptory striking
black jurors. the prosecutons quesbons
and statements during soir dire, and the
proseculon s statements and acbons w ex
ercusing hw peremptory strikes /d

If the trial judge determines that the
defendant has made a suffiment pnms fo
ove showing. “the burden shifu w the Sue
to come forward with a neutral explanavor
for challenging black jurors” /d at 1723
Although “the prosecutor's explanation
need not mse to the leve! justifying exercise
of a challenge for cause,” /d at 1723. “the

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she along with the other people who had
raised similar objections yesterday, |
struck for, | think probably self-evident
reasons, that type of evidence w going
be important to my tris) and | believe
that it will be very difficult for me to get
a fair hearing on my side of the case if
there are people who just plain believe
that is not mght under any circumstances
no matter what the judge should instruct
them

With respect t© Ms. Phenix, | noted
this morning when | came into the court
room, I thought yesterday afternoon, as s
matter of fact, that | would like to keep
her She is @ sort of basic Milwaukee
person on paper at least, what we know
of her. This morning she was late in
coming, she was not the only one, but
she was among people who (arrived) af
ter two o'clock Gus afternoon when the
jury was supposed to be here in their
seats And this indicated to me a lack of
commitment to the importance of thu
proceeding That was one of the reasons
why | felt that given a choice between
Ms. Phenix and another juror, | would
select a juror who evidenced more of s
commitment

In addition to that, while watching her
in Une courtroom she did not seem to be
attentive to the proceedings at hand |
know this is always very difficull &
judge these Uungs on the basis of such 8
short exposure to 8 person, but that was
my impression of her That is the reason
why | decided t strike her

My last strike as | mentioned a few
moments ago, was Mr. Robinson. | be
lieve that is his name, Declinton Robin
son The reason why | struck him os
[admittedly « personal) one | don't
know what is going to happen to me if |
put this on the record, but | am going to
anyway because the Court needs lo know
my reasons

Mr Declinton was sitting directly &
my mght only @ space of approximately
four feet from me, and bot) yesterday
and today he spent « very great dea! of
time in examining me in e way which |
felt was in the end becoming rather hos

tile Now, | realize that the is « sudje
tive judgment, but it was very marked u
me, Judge It was something that | no
ticed and felt was rude for one thing, and
indicated one of two things, either he
was going to be very strongly in support
of my position or he was going to be very
strongly against my position. Under
those circumstances | felt that there
were other jurors who more fit the pro
file of & juror that | was looking for
There is always « thousand other
things, but | fee! that at least this much
should be placed on the record at this
point because | fee! that it would have
been to my sdvantage, rather than my
disadvantage to have had black jurors or
this particular jury, because my witness
@s, too, your Honor, my most importan'
witness, Mr. James DeShazer, is like Mr
Mathews, black, and | fee! that i
important that he get « fair hearing. an
so | gained nothing. | gained nothing
have to select my jurors one at & Ume, as
| eee it and those are my reasons
Trial Tr. pp. 83-86. Following this expls
nation, the judge asked Mathews attorne)
for his response, and he pointed out Wa!
other white jurors had also been late bu!
had not been struck by the government
The judge then proceeded to weigh the
factors put forth by both sides as wel! as
other surrounding circumstances The
judge stated that he agreed that the firs
venireman struck had given particular’)
hesitant responses to the judge's inquir
following the venireman's initia! objectior
to covert taping and that the peremptor
strike was “wel! justified” With regard &
the second black venireman struck, th«
judge aiso agreed that the person had der
onstrated s pointed disinterest in the pro
ceedings evidenced not only by her tard
ness but also by her posture and demeanor
With regard to the third venireman struck
the judge noted that the prosecutor's exp's
nation was subjective and not based or
factors that the court had also observed
but that th did not necessarily undermine
her explanation The court then consider-<
the explanation in light of other surround

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prosecutor may not rebut the defendant's
prima facie case of discrimination by stat
ing merely that he challenged jurors of the
defendant's race on the assumption—or his
intuitive judgment—that they would be
partial to the defendant because of their
shared race” Jd Neither may the prose
cutor satisfy his burden “by denying that
he had « dwcriminatory motive or ‘affirm
ing his good faith in individual! selections

id at 1723 (citations omitted) The prose
cutor's explanation must be “clear and rea
sonably specific,” it must contain “ ‘legit
imate reasons for exercising the cha!

lenges,” and it must be “related w the
particular case to be tried” /d at 1723 n
20

The defendant, of course bears the ulti
mate burden of proving intenvona! disenm
ination. Jd at 1721 and 1723-24 The
duty to determine whether such a showing
has been made i entrusted to the sound
discretion of the tria! courts who are expe
menced in supervising voir dire ld at
1723

For purposes of review on appeal, Bar
son reminds us that “‘s finding of inten
tons! discrimination is @ finding of fact
enuUed to appropmate deference by a re
viewing court,” and that, “[s)}ince the tris
judge's findings in the context under con
sideratuon here largely will turn on evalua
won of credibility, reviewing court ord
narily should give those findings great def
erence.” Jd at 17245 21. Thus, we may
only reverse the tra! judge's determination
that the prosecution's peremptory cha
lenges were not motivated by intentona
discrimination if that determination is
clearly erroneous. United States v Tuck
er, TTS F.2d 186, 142 (7th Cir 1985), cert
denied — US —, 106 S.Ct 8398, 92
L.Ed 2d 742 (1986

B
(3) Applying these principles w the
facts here, we have no doubt that the tra
1. Because we find the tris! judge's condu

of the proceedings below setislies Batson) re
quiremenu. we need not (end ecapressly &

mot) decide whether Bewon applies retros
se com Ser Allen +

Uvely to Nerd,

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court properly dened Mathews motor f
mistrial! based on the prosecaton's use of
peremptory challenges’ The judges
quiry wes careful and thorough and hu
underlying findings were reasonable and
consistent. The tria! court's altumate find
ing that the government did not intenuona
ly dweriminate when exercising iu perem>
tory challenges cannot be said to be clear',
erroneous

The trial judge. without the benefit of
Batson's specific guidelines undertook
thorough inquiry im response to Mathews
pretria' motion challenging the goverr
ments use of its peremptory cha enges &
remove al) blacks from the jury After
hstening to Mathews objection outside ure
presence of the jury. the judge asked the
prosecutor for her response The prosec.
tor then explained in some deta.’ the bas
for each of her strikes against the thre
black veniremen We recount r
full as an example of the type of explana
ton that sausfies Saison’ requiremeru
that such explanations be clear and reas
ably specific, contain legitimate reasor
and be related to the partcular case

I did have reasons. The choice tha
made this morning was an unusualy ¢
ficult one, and as [defense counse!’ is
probed'y aware. the genUeman one
the genUemen who was among the pe
ple that | just mentoned was my las

strike, and one over which | hesitated a

some jength it is always very diff

to describe your reasons why y

or do not choose a juror Wher you read

cases that say you are supposed to t&

what your reasons are !| think ths mus

be written by people who never tried «
case, but | will do the best | can

With respect to the lady, Mrs. Switze:
she was (among) those people who ind

calec & grave reservauon wilh respect k

her ability t adequately look at and ar

prawe the tape recording evidence and

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The court noted the
witnesses for both aides m Ue
which would discount any

ny circumstances
ie Bey
case were Diack
advantage that « ducrminating prosecutor
might perceive in striking blacks from the
ury. The court noted that there was nc
evidence that the prosecution had mair
ined & pattern or practice of striking
acks from juries i cases where the de
fendants are bisck, and further commented
that We courts persons: experence
showed the contrary. Finally, the court
noted Unat the demeanor of the prosecutor
while exercising her peremptory challenges
the Gme that she wor doing
calec Wat she Was NOt Simply SLrlking
enireman because they were Dieck but
was engaging in « carefu! process of delib
erauon based on many factors In light of
a! of these circumstances, We judge denied
for mews

anc mn

Mathews motor

The judge's inquiry fits easily into the
established in Batson Ir

before the court We

format hus Mo

Mathews put

facts that he is Diack (@ cognizable rece
group) and that the prosecution usec per
emptory challenges © strike members of

his racial group from the jury. Mathews
also noted thal the government eliminate
a!) blacks from the jury, not just « few. as
additions! evidence of the prosecutions dis
criminatory motive. Although we need n
de, Une Wri! budge apparently Wreatec
prime facie evidence of
intent

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this as sufficient
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exercuing its peremptory challenges The
sdge then gave the prosecution & chance

s éucriminatory

to rebDut thus inference with a neutra: expla
nat for challenging the black veniremer
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tion the
clear was reasonably specific
latec © We paertculer case
hearing Mathews response & We
expianston, considered a!! relevant circum
stances and ruled that Mathews
carned hw ullumate burden of proving ds
intent

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mot for msi
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In sum, we find it was not error for the
tra! judge to require Mathews to admit a

elements of the cmme including intent be
fore allowing hirn w plead entrapment
was not error to exclude for cause severe
expressed mugivings re
garding the use of covert tapings, and
was not clearly erroneous for the judge &
deny Mathews motion for mistria) based
on the prosecution's alleged discrnminator
challenges. The de

veniremen whe

use of peremptory

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