Dora v. State

KING, C.J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. David Dorrell Dora was convicted in the Circuit Court of Lowndes County of burglary of a business. Dora was sentenced to five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), with two years of post-release supervision, and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine. Aggrieved, Dora raises two issues on appeal, which we quote verbatim:

I. Whether the trial court erred in ruling that the defense failed to make a prima facie case of racial discrimination after the defense raised a Batson chai- lenge to the State’s peremptory strikes made during jury…