State ex rel. Riederer v. Coburn

ULRICH, Judge.

Relator, the Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney, on behalf of the State of Missouri (state), brings this action in mandamus against the Honorable H. Michael Co-burn, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit (respondent). In the underlying criminal case, the Caucasian defendant peremptorily struck the only five black venirepersons from the venire. The state sought by motion respondent’s order compelling defendant to articulate race neutral reasons for striking the five venirepersons. Respondent denied the state’s motion, and the defendant declined to state any reasons for exercising his…