STATE v. KENNEDY

No. 22502-KA.

584 So.2d 702 (1991)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Gerald Wayne KENNEDY and Charles Middlebrook, Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daryl Gold and Richard C. Goorley, Shreveport, for Gerald Kennedy.

John Michael McDonald, Shreveport, for Charles Middlebrook.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, Paul J. Carmouche, Dist. Atty., Powell Layton, Jr., Liddell Smith, and Catherine M. Estopinal, Asst. Dist. Attys., Shreveport, for appellee.

Before MARVIN, C.J., and VICTORY and BROWN, JJ.


MARVIN, Chief Judge.

In this appeal of their felony convictions, the jointly charged and tried co-defendants, Kennedy and Middlebrook, complain of the trial court's ruling that required them, without consultation, to simultaneously exercise, with each other and with the State, peremptory challenges of jurors.

Each appellant contends the trial court's ruling effectively denied him the intelligent exercise of the 12 peremptory challenges guaranteed him by LSA...

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