Dye v. State

OPINION

BRADFORD, Judge.

Appellant-Defendant Anthony Dye appeals following his guilty plea to Class B felony Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Serious Violent Felon1 (“SVF”) and a jury’s finding that he is a Habitual Offender,2 by virtue of which his twenty-year SVF sentence was enhanced by thirty years. Dye raises the following four issues, which we restate and reorder as follows:

I. Whether the trial court erred in denying Dye’s motion to dismiss the habitual offender charge;

II. Whether the trial court erred in denying Dye’s Batson challenge that the State impermissibly used peremptory…