Addison v. State

RUCKER, Justice.

We grant transfer in this case to explore whether and to what extent a defendant’s race-based Batson claim may be reviewed on appeal where at trial the defendant failed to rebut the State’s proffered race-neutral reason for striking a black venire-person.

Facts and Procedural History

On the evening of December 19, 2008, in response to a noise he heard in front of his house, forty-year-old Joey Addison walked outside, found Gerrod Scott Scales walking near two parked cars in front of Addison’s home, shot Scales fourteen times with two handguns, stated “Now what you moth-erf* *…