Jackson v. State

The appellant was convicted of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment. That sentence was to run concurrently with the sentence imposed in another case, CC-91-1537.

The appellant argues that the trial court erred in finding that he did not establish a prima facie case of racial discrimination or gender-based discrimination in the prosecutor's exercising of his peremptory challenges during jury selection. Ex parte Branch, 526 So.2d 609 (Ala. 1987);J.E.B. v. Alabama, 511 U.S. 127, 114 S.Ct. 1419, 128 L.Ed.2d 89 (1993). The record indicates that the following…