Gantt v. State

Wright, Reed, Charles E. Moylan, Jr. (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), JJ.

Moylan, J.

*281 It would be challenging to declare that in this case the 1986 decision of Batson v. Kentucky , 476 U.S. 79 , 106 S. Ct. 1712 , 90 L. Ed. 2d 69 , is robustly alive and well. The mundane reality, however, is that in this case, the raising of a Batson issue is but an opportunistic afterthought on tenuous life-support. Even without Batson , however, the appellant's criminal history has a stubborn vitality of its own that is slowly hardening into local legend.

*282 The Scourge Of Lexington Park

The appellant is…