State v. Shanks

PUDLOWSKI, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted of one count of attempted kidnapping, § 564.011, RSMo 1986, and one count of resisting arrest, § 575.150, RSMo 1986, in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County. Defendant was sentenced as a persistent offender to ten years imprisonment for the attempted kidnapping charge and six months imprisonment for the resisting arrest charge, the terms to run concurrently. This appeal follows.

Defendant contends first that the trial court erred in failing to find that defendant established a prima facie case of racial discrimination in the prosecution’s use…