Antonio Doyle v. Terry Royal

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ANTONIO LAVON DOYLE, No. 20-99013

Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. 3:00-cv-00101- v. RCJ-WGC

TERRY ROYAL; LAS VEGAS

METRO POLICE DEPARTMENT; OPINION

ADAM PAUL LAXALT,

Respondents-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Robert Clive Jones, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 13, 2024 San Francisco, California

Filed December 2, 2025

Before: William A. Fletcher, Eric D. Miller, and Kenneth K. Lee, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Miller; Partial Dissent by Judge Lee SUMMARY *

Habeas Corpus

The panel affirmed in part and vacated in part the district court’s denial of a federal habeas petition filed by Antonio Lavon Doyle, a Nevada prisoner under sentence of death, in which he contends that the prosecutor violated Batson v. Kentucky by excluding three black prospective jurors during jury selection, and remanded. The Nevada Supreme Court determined that once the peremptory strikes of two of those prospective jurors, Emma Jean…