STATE v. JACKSON

No. 477A87.

368 S.E.2d 838 (1988)

322 N.C. 251

STATE of North Carolina v. James Wallace JACKSON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 5, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., by Barry S. McNeill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Gordon Widenhouse, Asst. Appellate Defender, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.


WEBB, Justice.

This appeal brings to the Court two questions. The first is whether there was error in the finding of the superior court that this black defendant's right to the equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution has not been violated by the discriminatory exclusion of members of his race from the petit jury. The second question involves the procedure which was used in the superior court to determine...

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