Blanch v. State

BLACKBURN, Senior Appellate Judge.

Following a jury trial, Andrew Blanch appeals his conviction for aggravated sodomy, 1 robbery, 2 and aggravated battery. 3 He contends that the trial court erred in (i) admitting three similar transactions, (ii) denying his motion to strike a former police officer from the jury panel, (iii) denying his motion for a mistrial, and (iv) failing to merge the robbery and aggravated battery counts. We hold that the other transactions were sufficiently similar, that the court was not required to strike the former-police-officer juror for cause, that Blanch waived…