HICKS v. STATE

No. 91-0503.

591 So.2d 662 (1991)

Bryant HICKS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 18, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Tanja Ostapoff, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Joseph A. Tringali, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


DELL, Judge.

Bryant Hicks appeals from his conviction and sentence for possession of cocaine. He raises two points on appeal. He contends that the trial court erred when it denied his objection to the state's peremptory challenge of the only black person on the jury venire and when it permitted the state to introduce testimony of prior consistent statements of a state witness. We reverse.

The state exercised a peremptory challenge to strike a Mrs. Tolbert...

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