State v. Reliford

BERREY, Judge.

Glen Reliford, defendant, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Jackson County of robbery second degree and was sentenced as a prior offender to fifteen (15) years in the Missouri Department of Corrections to run consecutively with a sentence imposed in another case. Defendant alleges four points on appeal; however, it will only be necessary to address Point II as it is dispositive of the case. In this point, defendant contends the prosecutor had systematically excluded blacks from the jury contrary to the principles set forth in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106…