California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for assault with a firearm, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and battery with serious bodily injury are affirmed over claim that the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to discharge the jury panel after the prosecutor exercised peremptory challenges to dismiss four of six African-American potential jurors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2008
• Published 02/11/2008

Judges

• MARGULIES, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Seth K. Schalit, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Dorian Jung, Deputy Attorney General.


• For Appellees:
  
• Meredith J. Watts, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.