Solomon v. State

Pope, Judge.

Jerrell Solomon appeals from his conviction of the armed robbery and kidnapping with bodily injury of Thomas Cliett on October 15, 1988, and the attempted armed robbery of John Clark on October 21, 1988.

T. Defendant contends that his conviction must be reversed because the State systematically excluded blacks from the jury based solely on their race by the unlawful exercise of its peremptory strikes without a neutral explanation, in contravention of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79 (106 SC 1712, 90 LE2d 69) (1986). In order to make a Batson challenge, after showing membership in a…