Tucker v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

The appellant, Anthony Tucker, a juvenile at the time of the crimes, appeals from convictions for aggravated robbery and kidnapping and sentences of forty years for each offense, to run concurrently. He raises specifically the failure to comply with Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) in jury selection, deficiencies in the juvenile transfer procedure and decision, an involuntary statement given to a police officer, and ineffective counsel. We conclude that there is no merit to any of these arguments, and we affirm.

On the morning of January 10,1991, Tucker, age 14,…