JAMES v. COM.

Record No. 931210.

442 S.E.2d 396 (1994)

Delano Fitzgerald JAMES, v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sa'ad El-Amin, Richmond (El-Amin & Crawford, on brief), for appellant.

Leah A. Darron, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen D. Rosenthal, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., and COMPTON, STEPHENSON, WHITING, LACY and HASSELL, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


LACY, Justice.

Delano Fitzgerald James was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. He was sentenced to forty years' imprisonment with execution of ten years suspended and was fined $100,000. James appealed his conviction, arguing that the Commonwealth used its peremptory strikes to remove two African-American veniremen from the jury panel for racially based reasons in violation of Batson...

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