Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit November 15, 2004, No. 03-56295 (Johnson v. Blanks)

MEMORANDUM **

Damien Johnson filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000) petition for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause was violated when a state prosecutor used peremptory challenges to excuse two prospective male jurors solely because of their gender.