STATE v. PIERRE

No. 86-KA-279.

501 So.2d 906 (1987)

STATE of Louisiana v. Terrence PIERRE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

January 12, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Craft, Staff Appellate Counsel, Twenty-Fourth Judicial Dist., Indigent Defender Bd., Gretna, for appellant.

John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., Twenty-Fourth Judicial Dist., Jefferson Parish (Jo Ellen McMillen, Dorothy A. Pendergast, Asst. Dist. Attys., Louise Korns, Office of the Dist. Atty., of counsel), Gretna, for appellee.

Before CHEHARDY, BOWES and GRISBAUM, JJ.


CHEHARDY, Judge.

Defendant, Terrence Pierre, appeals his conviction of armed robbery, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:64. Following his trial by a 12-person jury, he was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.

On appeal defendant alleges the trial judge erred in refusing to empanel a new jury after it was demonstrated that the State used peremptory challenges to exclude black persons from the jury for...

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