PARIENTE, Judge.
Defendant appeals his conviction for aggravated battery on a pregnant woman. We reverse defendant's conviction because the trial court improperly prevented him from exercising a peremptory challenge to strike a female juror employed in the courthouse as a deputy clerk.
Following the questioning of prospective jurors, defendant sought to exercise his first peremptory challenge to strike juror Elizabeth Maxwell. The prosecution stated that ...
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