State v. White

We have reviewed defendant’s propositions of law, independently weighed the evidence relating to the death sentence, weighed the aggravating circumstances against the mitigating factors, and compared the sentence with sentences in similar capital cases. As a result, we affirm defendant’s convictions and death sentence.

*436I. BATSON ISSUE

At trial, defendant objected to the state’s peremptory challenge of prospective juror Jesse Dent, arguing that the state challenged Dent because Dent was black, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. See Batson v. Kentucky (1986), 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712,…