Brown v. State

SULLIVAN, Justice.

Defendant Douglas Brown was convicted of murder for shooting another man to death. In affirming his conviction, we agree with the trial court that the prosecution offered sufficient race-neutral justifications for peremptorily excluding two potential African-American jurors; that Defendant was provided with his statutory right to consult with his father; and that there was no evidence to support instructing the jury on voluntary manslaughter.

Background

The facts most favorable to the verdiet show that on December 26, 1998, Defendant shot one Porter Moore outside an…