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CUESTAS v. STATE

No. 2-95-358-CR.

933 S.W.2d 731 (1996)

Fredde Lopez CUESTAS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, State.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

October 17, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Friedman, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Tim Curry, Criminal District Attorney, Charles M. Mallin, David M. Curl, and Bill Durkin, Assistant Criminal District Attorneys, Fort Worth, for appellee.

Before DAY, DAUPHINOT and RICHARDS, JJ.

OPINION

RICHARDS, Justice.

During jury selection in Appellant Fredde Lopez Cuestas's trial for delivery of a controlled substance, the State exercised a peremptory strike on an African American venireperson. Cuestas objected to the strike on the basis of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). The State responded that it struck the venireperson on the race-neutral grounds that he was ...

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