Case Name: STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff/Respondent, v. Rodney CLAYTON, Defendant/Appellant
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1995-01-24
Citations: 891 S.W.2d 551
Docket Number: No. 60195
Parties: STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff/Respondent, v. Rodney CLAYTON, Defendant/Appellant.
Judges: Before GRIMM, C.J., and SMITH and CARL R. GAERTNER, JJ.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 891
Pages: 551–551

Head Matter:
STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff/Respondent, v. Rodney CLAYTON, Defendant/Appellant.
No. 60195.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Five.
Jan. 24, 1995.
Lew Kollias, Office of the State Public Defender, Columbia, for appellant.
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen., Cheryl A. Caponegro, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.
Before GRIMM, C.J., and SMITH and CARL R. GAERTNER, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
A 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.
Defendant 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.
No 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.
The judgment is affirmed in accordance with Rule 30.25(b).
Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).