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STATE v. BETHLEY

No. 66061.

384 So.2d 791 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana v. Larry BETHLEY.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 3, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie B. Brown, Dist. Atty., Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

John Comish, Alton T. Moran, Director, M. Michele Fournet, Asst. Public Defender, for defendant-appellant.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed.

DENNIS, J., dissents with reasons.

DENNIS, Justice, dissenting.

I respectfully dissent. Although the assistant district attorney was willing to accept one black person on the jury, she exercised all six of her peremptory challenges against the remaining six black persons in the jury pool leaving only white jurors to determine the defendant's guilt or innocence. The use by the state of all of its peremptory challenges to...

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