PLAZA v. STATE

No. 96-2199.

699 So.2d 289 (1997)

Gerardo PLAZA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

September 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Louis K. Nicholas, II, Special Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Douglas Gurnic, Assistant Attorney General, and Emma Savadier, Legal Intern, for appellee.

Before JORGENSON and SORONDO, JJ., and BARKDULL, Senior Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant appeals from judgments of conviction and sentences for first degree murder, armed burglary, and armed robbery. We affirm.

During jury selection, the State exercised four peremptory challenges on prospective female jurors. Each State challenge occasioned a separate defense objection based upon gender discrimination. When the defense objected to one particular strike, the court stated:

I am not going to even turn to the State....

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