State v. Harris

KAROHL, Judge.

In a previous opinion we affirmed convictions and sentences on ten felony charges. State v. Harris, 860 S.W.2d 839 (Mo.App.E.D.1993). At the request of the parties we remanded for a Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986) hearing, on the state’s preemptory strikes. The trial court conducted the hearing. It denied defendant’s due process challenge.

We find no error in findings that the prosecutor furnished legally sufficient, race-neutral, and non-pretextual reasons to strike one white and two black venirepersons from the panel and one black…