Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defense counsel in this case used several of his peremptory challenges to excuse white prospective jurors from the jury panel. The prosecutor claimed that the defense counsel's peremptory challenges evidenced a pattern of exclusion of white males. The Supreme Court accepted several of the defense counsel's explanations, but the court found that the reason proffered with respect to juror number 12 was not racially neutral...
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