Watson v. State

HARRIS, Judge.

Patrick O. Watson raises several issues in this appeal. Two deserve discussion.

First, Watson claims that the court erred in permitting the State to challenge a prospective juror who was allegedly African-American. The first problem with this argument is that the record does not establish *1265that the prospective juror was, in fact, African-American. The most that the record shows in this regard is that the prosecutor, after the defense asked for a race neutral reason for the challenge, stated that she was “not sure that Ms. Gary was black.” As the court stated in Holiday v. State,…