EX PARTE BRANCH

86-500.

526 So.2d 609 (1987)

Ex parte Preston BRANCH. (In Re Preston Branch v. State of Alabama).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing December 4, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Dan Turberville, Birmingham, for petitioner.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen. and Beth Slate Poe, William D. Little, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.

Bryan E. Morgan, Executive Director, Alabama Dist. Attys. Ass'n, amicus curiae on behalf of district attorneys in State of Ala.


MADDOX, Justice.

This petition for certiorari presents a case of first impression involving the State's use of its peremptory challenges to strike 6 of 7 blacks from the jury venire. The specific question presented is whether the State's explanations of the reasons for its exercise of the challenges were racially "neutral." In determining this question, we must review, in detail, the holding of the Supreme Court of the United States in Batson v. Kentucky, ...

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