Court of Appeals of Oregon July 18, 2001, 9702-31436; A98207 (State v. Clay)

ARMSTRONG, J.

Defendant appeals his conviction for possession of a controlled substance. Defendant is African-American. He argues that the trial court’s disallowance of his objection to the state’s peremptory challenges of all three of the African-American jurors in the 27-person jury pool violated his right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal constitution.