COMMONWEALTH v. TULL

No. 2085-85.

49 Pa. D. & C. 3d 305 (1987)

Commonwealth v. Tull

Common Pleas Court of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

April 6, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Harmelin, assistant district attorney, for the commonwealth.

M. Kami Smith, for defendant.


SMITH, J., April 6, 1987.

Defendant, James Richard Tull, was charged on October 2, 1985 with sexually assaulting his paramour's seven-year-old daughter. On March 18, 1986, defendant's trial began before this court. Following voir dire, defense counsel objected to the jury panel on the grounds that the assistant district attorney had exercised his peremptory challenges in an unconstitutional manner when he struck all three black individuals on the venire. These...

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