Opinion ID: 1745774
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 25

Heading: The abuse of his peremptory challenges by the prosecutor deprived Cabello of his right to equal protection and to a representative jury.

Text: There is no evidence that Cabello objected to the prosecutor's peremptory challenges as discriminatory against members of a cognizable racial group prior to this motion for post-conviction relief. See, Section I.(G). In Irving, 498 So.2d at 317-8, the Court denied a similar allegation of error, where the movant first objected to the jury's racial composition, when he sought post-conviction relief. Significantly, this Court requires a contemporaneous objection at trial to prosecutorial misconduct, implicating Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). See, Lockett v. State, 517 So.2d 1317, 1331 (Miss. 1987), Jones v. State, 517 So.2d 1295, 1311 (Miss. 1987), Thomas v. State, 517 So.2d 1285, 1286 (Miss. 1987).