Opinion ID: 1714125
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Gwendolyn Anderson

Text: ¶ 25. Anderson stated on the Juror Identification Card that she was employed as a cashier, but did she did not identify her employer. She neither gave her employer's telephone number nor stated how long she had been employed. She had been a victim of a crime many years prior thereto and had a son who worked with the Biloxi Police Department. Finally, the State felt that, since she was a cashier, and the instant case involved the shooting of a cashier, she would be biased in some way. However, even with all these reasons, the State averred that the main reason it used a strike against Anderson was because she was unresponsive. ¶ 26. Horne points out that the record shows that Anderson stated that she hardly ever communicated with her police officer son and that she would not credit law enforcement witnesses with any more credibility just because they were in law enforcement. ¶ 27. We find that the combination of factors stated above (little information about her employment history, a relative in law enforcement, and being a victim of a crime) constitute a sufficient race-neutral reason for the exercise of a peremptory strike.