SPENCER v. STATE

No. 94, Sept. Term, 2015.

149 A.3d 610 (2016)

450 Md. 530

Kevon SPENCER v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 29, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renee M. Hutchins , Assigned Public Defender ( University of Maryland , Carey School of Law, Clinical Law Office of Baltimore; Paul B. DeWolfe, Public Defender of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Robert Taylor, Jr. , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Brian E. Frosh , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Barbera, C.J., Greene, Adkins, McDonald, Watts, Hotten and Getty, JJ.


In this case, Petitioner, Kevon Spencer ("Spencer"), challenges the trial judge's finding that defense counsel's explanations for striking jurors, in light of a Batson Challenge, were a pretext for racial discrimination. Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 97-98, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 1723-24, 90 L...

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