State v. Bibbs

OPINION

BIRCH, Judge.

The Criminal Court of Shelby County, Division I, approved a jury verdict convicting Rodney Bernard Bibbs, the defendant, of first-degree murder in the death of Sha-nique L. Page, age eleven. His sentence is imprisonment for life.

Bibbs appeals. In addition to contesting the legal sufficiency of the evidence upon which he was convicted, he contends: (1) that his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated by having been forced to select jurors from a venire in which blacks were underrepresented; (2) that the prosecutor exercised peremptory challenges in an…