State v. Clayton

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided January 24, 1995

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1995-01-24

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2005

4 state decisions

Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · State v. Clayton

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Decided 1995-01-24

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PER CURIAM.

¶1A jury convicted defendant of one count of first degree murder and one count of armed criminal action in violation of §§ 565.020 and 571.015, RSMo 1986. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole and life imprisonment consecutively.

¶2Defendant appealed; we remanded for a Batson * hearing but otherwise affirmed. State v. Clayton, 849 S.W.2d 259 (Mo.App.E.D.1993). The trial court conducted the Batson hearing and determined that the State’s reasons for striking black jurors were racially neutral. Defendant appealed.

¶3No jurisprudential purpose would be served by a written opinion. However, the parties have been furnished with a memorandum opinion for their information only, setting forth the facts and reasons for this order.

¶4The judgment is affirmed in accordance with Rule 30.25(b).

¶5 Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).