Anthony Raynell Spencer, Jr. v. State

In this appeal from a conviction for aggravated battery with a firearm, appellant, Anthony Raynell Spencer Jr., argues that the trial court erred in (1) allowing the state’s peremptory strike of an African American juror without conducting a proper inquiry into the state’s reason for the strike, and (2) permitting the victim to testify about collateral evidence that appellant tried to take the victim’s cell phone a week before the shooting. We conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing evidence of the cell phone incident, because this evidence was inextricably…