TAITANO v. COM.

Record No. 0032-86-1.

358 S.E.2d 590 (1987)

James Edward TAITANO v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

July 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul M. Lipkin (Robert H. Anderson, Jr., Mary G. Commander, Goldblatt, Lipkin, Cohen, Anderson & Legum, P.C., Norfolk, on brief), for appellant.

Leah A. Darron, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: BARROW, COLE and HODGES, JJ.


COLE, Judge.

James Edward Taitano was tried by a jury and convicted of first-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He contends on this appeal that the conviction should be reversed because (1) the Commonwealth's peremptory challenges were racially motivated in violation of his sixth and fourteenth amendment rights, and (2) the Commonwealth's failure to furnish an alleged exculpatory statement of one of its witnesses violated his due...

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