Green v. State

The appellant was convicted of forgery in the second degree and was sentenced to 19 years' imprisonment pursuant to the Habitual Felony Offender Act.

I

The appellant argues that he was denied his rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury, because, he says, the State improperly struck two of the five prospective black jurors. The appellant argues that the State failed to come forward with sufficient race-neutral explanations for these two strikes.

The record indicates that there were 36 potential jurors, five of them black. The prosecutor struck two black females, leaving three blacks sitting…