STATE v. NEIL

Nos. 63899, 63933.

457 So.2d 481 (1984)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Jack NEIL, Respondent. Jack NEIL, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

September 27, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Diane Leeds, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, for petitioner/respondent.

Paul A. Louis, Ray Ellen Yarkin, John L. Zavertnik and Leonard H. Rubin of Sinclair, Louis, Siegel, Heath, Nussbaum & Zavertnik, and Jesse J. McCrary, Jr., Miami, for respondent/petitioner.

Donald M. Middlebrooks, Talbot D'Alemberte and Thomas R. Julin of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami; Thomas Atkins, Gen. Counsel and Charles E. Carter, Associate Gen. Counsel, Brooklyn, N.Y.; John D. Due, Jr., Legal Redress Chairman, Miami; and Gerald B. Cope of Arky, Freed, Stearns, Watson, Greer & Weaver, Miami, amici curiae for The Florida State Conference Of Branches Of The N.A.A.C.P. and Common Cause Of Florida.


McDONALD, Justice.

In Neil v. State, 433 So.2d 51 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983), the district court certified the following question to be of great public importance:

Absent the criteria established in Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 202, 85 S.Ct. 824, 13 L.Ed.2d 759 (1965), may a party be required to state the basis for the exercise of a peremptory challenge?

Id. at 52. We...

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