State v. Miller

Introduction

Dwayne Miller (Defendant) appeals from a judgment of conviction of first-degree murder, armed criminal action, and first-degree attempted robbery. Defendant alleges trial court error in sustaining the State’s challenge to Defendant’s peremptory strike of a white venireperson, overruling Defendant’s challenge to the State’s peremptory strikes of two black venirepersons, and in sustaining the State’s objection to defense counsel’s attempt to compare for the venire the difference between the civil and criminal burdens of proof. We affirm.

Factual and Procedural Background

Defendant…