State v. Williams

KAROHL, Presiding Judge.

This is a direct appeal after a jury trial and conviction on charges of robbery second and burglary first degree. Defendant was charged and tried as a persistent offender. He was sentenced to serve concurrent sentences of twenty years for each charge. These terms were made consecutive to a previously imposed sentence entered in an unrelated case.

The trial occurred prior to Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). The original issue claimed error in admission of in-court identification testimony because it was based on overly and…