State v. Carter

ORDER

NUGENT, Judge.

Defendant Raymond Carter appeals his convictions by a jury of first degree robbery, attempted first degree robbery and two counts of armed criminal action and the sentences imposed. He claims, among other complaints, that the prosecutor im-permissibly used his peremptory challenges to strike two of three black jurors on the basis of their race. Defendant argues that by failing to quash the jury panel, the trial court denied him equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712,…