Suggs v. State

We review Suggs v. State, 603 So.2d 6 (Fla. 5th DCA1992), in which the district court held that Richard Suggs (Suggs) waived his Neil1 challenge because he failed to move to strike the jury panel before the jury was sworn. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.; Jollie v. State, 405 So.2d 418 (Fla.1981).

We held in Joiner v. State, 618 So.2d 174 (Fla.1993), that moving to strike the jury panel is not the only way to preserve a Neil objection for review; accepting a jury subject to an earlier Neil objection is sufficient to preserve the issue of alleged racial bias in the exercise…