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STATE v. FIELDING

No. 48,524-KA.

130 So.3d 1052 (2014)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee v. Donte FIELDING, Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

January 22, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louisiana Appellate Project, by Carey J. Ellis, III , for Appellant.

Donte Fielding, pro se.

Jonathan M. Stewart , District Attorney, Daniel W. Newell , Kenneth P. Haines , Tammy L. Gantt Jump , Assistant District Attorneys, for Appellee.

Before WILLIAMS, STEWART and MOORE, JJ.

STEWART, J.

The issue in this case is whether the state used its peremptory challenges to exclude African Americans from jury solely on the basis of their race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as interpreted in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). Following a jury trial, the defendant, Donte Fielding, was convicted of second degree murder, a violation of...

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