Case Name: STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Raymond D. WHITE, Appellant
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 2003-07-29
Citations: 113 S.W.3d 677
Docket Number: No. WD 61790
Parties: STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Raymond D. WHITE, Appellant.
Judges: Before: ULRICH, P.J., and HOWARD and NEWTON, JJ.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Third Series
Volume: 113
Pages: 677–677

Head Matter:
STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Raymond D. WHITE, Appellant.
No. WD 61790.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
July 29, 2003.
Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied Sept. 2, 2003.
Andrew A. Schroeder, Ruth B. Sanders, Appellate Defenders, Kansas City, MO, for appellant.
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, Patrick T. Morgan, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO, for respondent.
Before: ULRICH, P.J., and HOWARD and NEWTON, JJ.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
A jury convicted Raymond White of assault in the first degree and armed criminal action. On appeal, he alleges that the trial court clearly erred in overruling his Batson objection to the prosecutor's use of its peremptory strike to remove an African-American venireperson from the panel. Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).
We find no inherently discriminatory intent in the prosecutor's explanation for its striking the venireperson from the jury panel. Appellant failed to show that the prosecutor's proffered reasons for the strike were merely pretextual and that the strike was racially motivated.
Affirmed. Rule 30.25(b).