Guzman v. State

BENHAM, Justice.

In March 2008, appellant Freddie Gonzales Guzman was found guilty of the December 2006 malice murder of Juan Carlos Rangel Gayoso and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In his appeal, he contests the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission of evidence of his membership in a gang, the denial of his challenge to the array, and the denial of his objection to the State’s use of its peremptory challenges to remove African-American venire members from the jury panel. See Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79 (106 SC 1712, 90 LE2d 69) (1986). After reviewing the appellate record in…