STATE v. COSTELLO

No. ED 81010.

101 S.W.3d 311 (2003)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Sidney COSTELLO, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Four.

March 25, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa M. Stroup, St. Louis, MO, for appellant.

John M. Morris, III, Patrick T. Morgan, co-counsel, Jefferson City, MO, for respondent.


GLENN A. NORTON, Judge

Sidney Costello appeals his conviction for sale of a controlled substance on the ground that the trial court erred in denying his Batson challenge to the State's peremptory strikes of two African-American venirepersons. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Costello made timely objections under Batson v. Kentucky to two of the African-American venirepersons against whom the State sought to use its peremptory strikes. See...

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