People v. Rollen CA4/1

I.

INTRODUCTION

On appeal, Van Keyshone Rollen raises five claims: (1) that the prosecutor

engaged in racial discrimination in the exercise of her peremptory challenges during jury

selection and that the trial court committed reversible error by denying Rollen's motions

pursuant to Batson v. Kentucky (1986) 476 U.S. 79 (Batson) and People v. Wheeler

(1978) 22 Cal.3d 258 (Wheeler), overruled in part by Johnson v. California (2005) 545

U.S. 162, contesting three of the prosecutor's peremptory challenges; (2) that the trial

court abused its discretion in denying the defense request to be permitted to impeach a

witness with evidence that the witness had appeared at the courthouse intoxicated on the

day he was summoned to testify; (3) that the court abused its discretion in denying

Rollen's motion to either reduce his single felony conviction to a misdemeanor, or to

strike his prior strike convictions; (4) that the court erred in imposing four, rather than

three, five-year enhancements pursuant to Penal Code1 section 667; and (5) that the court

erred in failing to calculate the number of presentence custody credits to which Rollen is

entitled.

We affirm…