TATE, Justice.
The defendant was convicted of armed robbery, La.R.S. 14:64, and sentenced to thirty-five years imprisonment at hard labor.
The principal issue of this appeal concerns whether the accused was denied trial by a jury representative of the community, because of the prosecutor's exclusion of blacks from petit jury service by the exercise of peremptory challenges as a consistent course of systematic exclusion of blacks over an extended period of...
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