Suggs v. State

W. SHARP, Judge.

Suggs appeals from his judgment of guilt and sentence for grand theft after a jury trial. He argues the trial court departed from the directives of State v. Slappy, 522 So.2d 18 (Fla.), cert. denied, 487 U.S. 1219, 108 S.Ct. 2873, 101 L.Ed.2d 909 (1988) and State v. Neil, 457 So.2d 481 (Fla.1984) when it allowed the state attorney to back-strike the only black member of the jury who had been (at that point) accepted by both sides for service on the jury panel, through the exercise of a peremptory challenge. Because we do not think defense counsel preserved this point below, we…