Romero v. State

GLANT, DAVID A., Associate Judge.

Bryan A. Romero raises two issues on appeal: 1) the trial court erred in allowing the state to exercise a peremptory strike on a venireperson based on the fact that she spoke Spanish and might not defer to the official translation 2) his life sentence without the possibility of parole for second-degree murder is unconstitutional under Graham v. Florida, — U.S. -, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010). We affirm on both issues for the reasons set forth below.

On a summer afternoon in Jacksonville, Florida, the victim Timothy Siebold and his girlfriend wanted to…