‘Project Exile’ Case Not Selective Prosecution

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 25, 2012

Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal, Judge Allyson K. Duncan

An African-American defendant prosecuted in Richmond federal court for firearms possession under Project Exile cannot show racially discriminatory “selective prosecution” because two white defendants who stole the firearms in Campbell County and sold them to defendant were prosecuted in state court; the 4th Circuit says factors such as prosecution by different sovereigns in different jurisdictions ...

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