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HAWKINS v. STATE

No. 54850.

256 P.3d 965 (2011)

Collie HAWKINS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

August 4, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip J. Kohn , Public Defender, and Howard S. Brooks , Deputy Public Defender, Clark County, for Appellant.

Catherine Cortez Masto , Attorney General, Carson City; David J. Roger , District Attorney, and Steven S. Owens , Chief Deputy District Attorney, Clark County, for Respondent.

Before DOUGLAS, C.J., HARDESTY and PICKERING, JJ.

OPINION

By the Court, PICKERING, J.:

Appellant Collie Hawkins contends that the district court erred by rejecting his challenges to the State's peremptory challenges of three jurors as impermissible race discrimination under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). On the record and briefs presented, we cannot sustain this claim.

The defense objected to the State's peremptory...

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