Hall v. State

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The appellant, Kevin Brett Hall, was convicted of robbery in the first degree, see § 13A-8-41, Ala. Code 1975, and was sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment without parole.

Hall contends that the state used its peremptory challenges to strike black prospective jurors in violation of the principles of Batson v.Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).

The state used five of its peremptory challenges against black prospective…