HALE v. STATE

No. 84-2454.

480 So.2d 115 (1985)

Ronald Frederick HALE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied January 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Bartow, and Douglas S. Connor, Asst. Public Defender, Tampa, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Gary O. Welch, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

This appeal involves a consideration of the rule announced by the supreme court in State v. Neil, 457 So.2d 481 (Fla. 1984), which seeks to preclude racial prejudice in the selection of juries.

In Neil, trial courts were directed to apply the following test:

The initial presumption is that peremptories will be exercised in a nondiscriminatory manner. A party concerned about...

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