Holland v. State

|! Robert Holland was convicted of capital murder after a jury found that he had strangled his prison cellmate to death. He received the death penalty. On appeal, Holland raises three-issues. Only one of these issues is properly preserved: wheth-, er the circuit court should have sustained Holland’s Batson challenge to the State’s use of peremptory strikes to exclude three African Americans from the jury. We hold that the court’s decision to reject Holland’s Batson challenge was not clearly against the preponderance of the evidence and affirm Holland’s sentence of death.

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