State v. Thompson

NUGENT, Judge.

The defendant, Michael Thompson, appeals his conviction for robbery in the second degree. He complains of errors in cross-examination and of the trial court’s failure to quash the jury panel on the basis of the prosecution’s misuse of its peremptory strikes of all black persons from the venire. We affirm his conviction.

At midday on December 28, 1983, James Leake and his band members were at the Stage Door Lounge loading their equipment into several cars when defendant Thompson approached the band and asked them where they had been playing. He then suggested that he might be able…