State v. Bell

*652SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION

O’BRIEN, Justice.

This defendant was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. He was also convicted of burglary and two (2) counts of felonious assault. At a prior term this Court affirmed the trial court judgments in every respect except for an issue charging error for failure to strike the venire or grant a mistrial because the State used its peremptory challenges to remove black persons from the petit jury.1 This complaint was lodged on the basis of the decision in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). During the course of…