Holland v. State (Majority)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of capital murder for strangling his prison cellmate to death. Defendant was sentenced to death for the murder. Defendant appealed, raising three claims. The only issue properly preserved for appeal was whether the circuit court erred in sustaining Holland’s Batson challenge to the State’s use of peremptory strikes to exclude three African Americans from the jury. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and sentence of death, holding that the circuit court’s decision to reject the Batson challenge was not clearly against the preponderance of the evidence.
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