STATE v. ADAMS

No. KA-8991.

533 So.2d 1060 (1988)

STATE of Louisiana v. Sandra ADAMS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Sandra Pettle, Asst. Dist. Atty. of Orleans Parish, for appellee.

Bryan Pedeaux, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before BYRNES, WILLIAMS and PLOTKIN, JJ.


WILLIAMS, Judge.

This criminal appeal from a female defendant's conviction for solicitation with intent to commit unnatural carnal copulation concerns the State's use of its peremptory challenges to exclude males from the jury panel, which defendant contends is a violation of her Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Rights.

Defendant claims she was denied a fair trial by a jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the population and equal protection of the law because...

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