SENATUS v. State

Cassandra Senatus appeals from her conviction for resisting an officer without violence. She argues that the trial court improperly denied her peremptory challenge of a prospective juror based on a finding that the reasons for the strike were not genuine. We agree with Sena-tus’s contention that the trial court should have allowed the peremptory challenge. There is nothing in the record to suggest that defense counsel’s concededly race-neutral reasons for striking the prospective juror were not genuine. Indeed, the record reveals that none of the Slappy 1 factors indicating pretext are…