State v. Davis

Green, J.:

Jeremy Davis appeals his jury trial conviction for aggravated robbery in violation of K.S.A. 21-3427. First, Davis argues that the trial court erred in overruling his objection under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 90 L. Ed. 2d 69, 106 S. Ct. 1712 (1986), to the State’s use of peremptory challenges to strike the only two African-American members of the jury panel. Because the trial court never conducted a full analysis under step three of Batson and thus never reached the ultimate determination of whether Davis had shown purposeful discrimination by the State, we reverse on this…