HERNANDEZ v. STATE

No. 87-1100.

538 So.2d 521 (1989)

Fernando HERNANDEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 14, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Barbara Green, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Ralph Barreira, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and NESBITT, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal by the defendant Fernando Hernandez from a judgment of conviction and sentence for robbery which was entered below upon an adverse jury verdict. We reverse and remand for a new trial based on the following briefly stated legal analysis.

First, we conclude that the trial court committed reversible error in allowing the state, over a defense objection, to exercise peremptory challenges on two Black prospective jurors. A prima facie...

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