FUHRMAN, District Judge.
Robert R. Venable, convicted by a jury of robbery, was sentenced to serve a term of 162/3 to 50 years. Venable appeals, claiming the court erred in failing to grant a mistrial because the prosecution used a peremptory challenge to strike one of the only two black prospective jurors and in allowing the prosecutor to ask his rebuttal witness if she had been convicted of a felony. We affirm.
After the voir dire of the jury, the prosecution...
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