
    Thomas JAMES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 96-871.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Feb. 12, 1997.
    Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Howard K. Blumberg, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
    Robert A Butterworth, Attorney General, and Wanda Raiford, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
    Before NESBITT, LEVY and GODERICH, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Because the State’s justifications for peremptorily challenging the prospective jurors were facially race-neutral and genuine, we affirm. See State v. Holiday, 682 So.2d 1092 (Fla.1996); Melbourne v. State, 679 So.2d 759 (Fla.1996).

Affirmed..  