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BLAIR v. STATE

No. S96A1415.

476 S.E.2d 263 (1996)

267 Ga. 166

BLAIR v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

October 7, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Eugene Strickland, Albany, for Blair.

Gary C. McCorvey, Asst. Dist. Atty., C. Paul Bowden, Dist. Atty., Tifton, Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, Nancy Grey R. Brimberry, Asst. Dist. Atty., Tifton, Wesley S. Horney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for State.

FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted Caleb Blair of malice murder in the stabbing death of David Ansley.1 Blair appeals contending the trial court erred in sustaining the state's challenge to Blair's exercise of his peremptory strikes. Because Blair failed to provide a race and gender neutral, case-related, specific explanation for the exercise of his strikes, we affirm.

1. The evidence showed that Blair and Ansley had...

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