Case Name: STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Sylvester Charles STEWART, Sr., Appellant
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 2011-06-28
Citations: 343 S.W.3d 711
Docket Number: No. WD 72488
Parties: STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Sylvester Charles STEWART, Sr., Appellant.
Judges: Before Division Two: JAMES M. SMART, JR., Presiding Judge, MARK D. PFEIFFER, Judge and CYNTHIA L. MARTIN, Judge.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Third Series
Volume: 343
Pages: 711–712

Head Matter:
STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Sylvester Charles STEWART, Sr., Appellant.
No. WD 72488.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
June 28, 2011.
Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied Aug. 2, 2011.
Shaun J. Mackelprang and Jayne T. Woods, Jefferson City, MO, for respondent.
Steven B. Willibey, Kansas City, MO, for appellant.
Before Division Two: JAMES M. SMART, JR., Presiding Judge, MARK D. PFEIFFER, Judge and CYNTHIA L. MARTIN, Judge.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM:
Sylvester Stewart appeals following a jury verdict convicting him of burglary in the first degree, stealing, assault in the third degree, and resisting arrest. Stewart maintains that the trial court clearly erred in overruling his Batson challenge to the State's peremptory strike of an African-American venire person. Because the State offered a facially race neutral explanation for the strike of the venire person, and because Stewart did not establish that the State's explanation was merely a pretext for discrimination, we affirm. Rule 30.25(b).