Parker v. State

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

Mantice Parker, the defendant and petitioner in this criminal case, was tried by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on several counts charging assaults and illegal use of a handgun, based on the shooting of two persons. During the jury selection, the State challenged the defendant’s use of peremptory strikes as discriminatory, claiming a pattern of racially based strikes against white prospective jurors. The trial court sustained the State’s objection regarding two prospective jurors and reseated the stricken persons on the jury panel. The trial proceeded, and…