SENATUS v. STATE

No. 3D09-1823.

40 So.3d 878 (2010)

Cassandra SENATUS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 21, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Michael T. Davis, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Forrest L. Andrews, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before GERSTEN, SHEPHERD, and LAGOA, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Cassandra Senatus appeals from her conviction for resisting an officer without violence. She argues that the trial court improperly denied her peremptory challenge of a prospective juror based on a finding that the reasons for the strike were not genuine. We agree with Senatus's contention that the trial court should have allowed the peremptory challenge. There is nothing in the record to suggest that defense counsel's concededly race-neutral reasons for...

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