Opinion ID: 1778765
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 18

Heading: Cristi La Marque Robertson

Text: ś 121. The reasons stated for the peremptory challenge of this juror were stated into the record. BY MR. ALLGOOD: Mr. Robertson, your Honor, lives in the functional equivalent of Brooksville Gardens in this community; he lives in an extremely bad neighborhood. Uh, Mr. Robertson is a individual who once again reads those same magazines, theâ the press which has had those articles on O.J. Simpson and things of that nature in itâ contained in it. He did not complete his form, your Honor. On his, uh, questionnaire he did not fill out all theâ the blanks and what have you and the incompleteness of the form made me obviously question theâ the veracity of his responses to begin with, and those are my reasons for striking those two jurors. ś 122. Manning is procedurally barred from asserting this claim for error for failure to rebut the prosecutor's reason for the strike as pretextual. Blue, supra . As such, we find no reversible error.