State v. McRae

COYNE, Justice.

In an unpublished decision, the court of appeals affirmed defendant’s conviction of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree against a number of claims, including one dealing with the prosecutor’s exercise of a peremptory challenge to exclude a black person as a juror, one concerning the trial court’s closure of trial when the victim, a teenager, testified, and one relating to the prosecutor’s misconduct in using a statement to cross-examine defendant which the trial court had ordered suppressed. Because of our concern about the court of appeals’ analysis of each of these…