Williams v. State

OPINION

By the Court, Rose, J.:

In this appeal, we decide whether the district court’s dismissal of multiple jury venires was error, whether a subsequent venire cured those errors, and whether the district court erred when it allowed the State to impeach the defendant regarding a conviction for a crime committed when he was seventeen years old.

After a trial, a jury selected from the third venire convicted Gary Jerome Williams of the battery of Robin Swope. Before trial, the district court denied Williams’ motion to suppress his conviction for aggravated robbery, which occurred in 1985 when he…