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RAY-SIMMONS & McGOULDRICK v. STATE

No. 28, Sept. Term, 2015.

132 A.3d 275 (2016)

446 Md. 429

Mashea Louise RAY-SIMMONS a/k/a Tayana Simmons and Antionette McGOULDRICK v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 22, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Braudes , Asst. Public Defender ( Paul B. DeWolfe , Public Defender of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for petitioners.

Robert Taylor, Jr. , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Brian E. Frosh , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for respondent.

Argued before BARBERA, C.J., BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD, WATTS, GLENN T. HARRELL, JR. (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

We apply in this case Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and its progeny to the State's exercise of peremptory challenges and its subsequent explanations for making those challenges. We hold that, because the State's explanation for one of its peremptory challenges...

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