Jones v. State

In this appeal, the appellant challenges the trial court’s summary denial of that portion of his rule 3.850 motion 1 alleging that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in failing to object to the State’s peremptory striking of two black jurors. We affirm.

In March of 2002, the appellant was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon. He appealed and this court reversed the conviction upon a finding that the State had failed to present evidence to permit the jury to find that the BB gun used by appellant in the commission of the crime was a deadly weapon. See Jones v. State, 869 So.2d…