State v. Reyes

VOSS, Judge.

In this appeal, we consider whether the prosecutor’s exercise of peremptory challenges to strike one Black and two Hispanic members from the jury panel was discriminatory in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, or the right to an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Appellant, Esteban Reyes, was convicted by a jury of aggravated assault, and second degree murder. The charges were filed as a result of a fight in the parking lot of a bar, where appellant shot two…