PER CURIAM.
Rodoff Desroches appeals a judgment of conviction for aggravated battery with a firearm. We reverse.
The trial court abused its discretion in precluding defendant, a black male, from exercising a peremptory challenge to strike a black prospective juror from the venire. Upon the state's objection, defense counsel asserted that the prospective juror would be unable to relate to defendant's situation and articulated several specific facts contained...
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