Mapp v. State

This is an appeal by the defendant Mark Mapp from a judgment of conviction and sentence for trafficking in cocaine, which was entered below upon an adverse jury verdict. We reject the defendant’s sole contention on appeal that the trial court erred in allowing the state’s exercise of a peremptory challenge against a black juror after a Neil inquiry, and affirm. We reach this result because, simply stated, the defendant clearly accepted the validity of the state’s explanation for the exercise of the subject peremptory challenge, as the defendant had himself offered precisely the same…