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Title: Charlie Brown v. City Delray Beach
Author : Court of Appeal of Florida
Release Date : January 08, 1995
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 63 KB

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Appellant Christopher Young was tried by a jury and convicted of robbery and a felony causing bodily injury. Young, an African-American, challenges his conviction on the ground that the trial court erred in denying his challenge to the states peremptory strike of three jurors: Mr. Bayonne, an African-American male, Ms. Santiago, an Hispanic female, and Ms. Polk-Cohen, an African-American female. The jury seated consisted of three African-Americans, two Hispanics, and two members whose race was identified by the trial court as "not black or Hispanic." We hold that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the states challenges to the jurors, and affirm.