Chambers v. State

OPINION

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of capital murder and assessed the death penalty. Appellant raised thirteen points of error on appeal; however, the nature of points one through seven cause us to restrict our discussion to these points.

In the first seven points of error, appellant argues that he was denied a fair trial under the Fourteenth Amendment due to the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges to strike all of the blacks from the jury panel. Appellant relies on Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). In Batson, the Supreme Court set out the…