P. v. Williams CA1/5
Omar Lamont Williams and Michael Keith Madison (collectively, “appellants”) appeal from a judgment sentencing them to prison after a jury convicted them of several counts arising out of a sexual assault. They contend: (1) the judgment must be reversed because the prosecutor used peremptory challenges to excuse six African-American jurors in violation of Batson v. Kentucky (1986) 476 U.S. 79 (Batson) and People v. Wheeler (1978) 22 Cal.3d 258 (Wheeler); (2) the trial court erroneously admitted evidence the victim had told a nurse that Williams was a pimp; and (3) their 25-year-to life sentences under the One Strike law for one of the counts must be vacated because the operative pleading did not include a One Strike allegation for that count.
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