Steinard v. State

BLUE, Judge.

Wayne Steinard challenges his conviction for aggravated assault -with a deadly weapon, contending the trial court erred in allowing improper character evidence and in failing to assure his presence or his waiver of presence during the exercise of peremptory challenges. We affirm Steinard’s conviction based on our determination that neither of these issues constitute error, although the peremptory challenge issue merits discussion. We agree with Steinard that two conditions should be stricken from the probation order because the conditions were not orally pronounced at sentencing.

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