State v. Wright

RIEDERER, Judge.

Appellant, Wendell Corrie Wright, was convicted of rape and sodomy. The sole issue on appeal is whether the state’s peremptory strike of a venire person was racially motivated in violation of Appellant’s right to equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 2 of the Missouri Constitution. Affirmed.

FACTS

Twenty-seven year-old Wendell Corrie Wright, met seventeen year-old Caren Borg-man in Slater, Missouri during the summer of 1996. Borgman was interested in dating Wright. The first time Borgman went to…