PEOPLE v. MARTIN

No. A077646.

75 Cal.Rptr.2d 147 (1998)

64 Cal.App.4th 378

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Victor Lee MARTIN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

Review Denied August 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Sweet, Oakland, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Appellant/Defendant

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Richard Rochman, Deputy Attorney General, Martin S. Kaye, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, for Respondent/Plaintiff.


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DOSSEE, Associate Justice.

Defendant appeals from his conviction of petty theft with a prior conviction for theft and raises two claims of error: (1) the prosecutor improperly exercised a peremptory challenge to remove a potential Black juror because she was a Jehovah's Witness and (2) the trial court erroneously instructed the jury to draw adverse inferences from defendant's failure to explain...

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