Jordan
People v. Jordan
Opinion
Opinion
Sepulveda, J.
A jury found defendant, Randie Paul Jordan, guilty of attempted second degree robbery. (Pen. Code, §§ 664, 211.) Following the jury’s verdict, the trial court found that defendant had suffered a prior conviction for forgery (§ 470, subd. (a)), and a prior conviction for second degree robbery (§ 211). The trial court denied defendant’s request to strike his prior serious felony conviction for second degree robbery and sentenced him to 10 years in state prison. Defendant contends that the trial court committed Batson-Wheeler error (Batson v. Kentucky (1986) 476 U.S. 79 [ 90 L.Ed.2d 69 , 106 S.Ct. 1712 ] (Batson); People v. Wheeler (1978) 22 Cal.3d 258 [ 148 Cal.Rptr. 890 , 583 P.2d 748 ] (Wheeler)), and that the failure to retain the juror questionnaires of the entire venire has denied him his constitutional right to an adequate record on appeal. We affirm.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
A. Trial Evidence
Because of the nature of the issues raised on appeal, it is not necessary to detail the evidence upon which defendant was convicted. In short, defendant approached a 55-year-old woman as she tried to enter her office located in Oakland, and began tugging and…