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HOPKINS v. COM.

Record No. 1923-07-1.

672 S.E.2d 890 (2009)

53 Va. App. 394

Bernard HOPKINS, Jr. v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

February 17, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Robins, Jr. (Office of the Public Defender, on brief), for appellant.

Joshua M. Didlake, Assistant Attorney General (Robert F. McDonnell, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: McCLANAHAN, HALEY and PETTY, JJ.

ELIZABETH A. McCLANAHAN, Judge.

Bernard Hopkins appeals from his conviction of distribution of cocaine. He argues the trial court committed error in overruling his Batson2 challenge to the Commonwealth's peremptory strikes of two African-American jurors during selection of the jury. We reverse the trial court.

I. BACKGROUND

During jury selection, the Commonwealth exercised all four of its peremptory strikes to...

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