State v. Gonzalez-Sandoval

The opinion of the court was delivered by Luckert, J.:

A jury convicted Jose Alberto Gonzalez-Sandoval of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. He appealed to the Court of Appeals, raising four issues. A majority of the Court of Appeals panel found one argument meritorious. It held the trial court abused its discretion in not granting Gonzalez-Sandoval a new trial because of the *854 State's exercise of a peremptory strike that removed an individual with a Spanish surname from the jury panel. See State v. Gonzalez-Sandoval , 53 Kan. App. 2d 536 , 561-65, 390 P.3d 84 (2017).

Generally, each…