State v. Lopez

BERREY, Judge.

Appellant appeals his conviction by a jury of tampering in the first degree and the 15 year sentence imposed. He was sentenced as a “persistent offender.” He also appeals the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion.1

Appellant alleges five points of trial court error: 1) in denying appellant’s motion to recuse himself, 2) by overruling appellant’s motion for judgment of acquittal, 3) by sustaining the state’s Batson objection to appellant’s preemptive strike of venireperson Danny Smith, 4) by overruling appellant’s objection to state’s peremptory strike of venireman Willard Olinger, and…