Carter v. Commonwealth

Opinion

I

FITZPATRICK, J.

Appellant, Stanley Michael Carter, was convicted by a jury of: (1) robbery in violation of Code § 18.2-58; (2) forcible sodomy in violation of Code § 18.2-67.1; (3) statutory burglary in violation of Code § 18.2-90; and (4) three counts of rape in violation of Code § 18.2-61. Appellant argues that the trial court erred by overruling his Batson-based constitutional challenge to the Commonwealth’s selection of the petit jury, and that the trial court erred by submitting to the jury three separate rape indictments where the facts established that the three acts of forcible…