EX PARTE RUTLEDGE

86-1172.

523 So.2d 1118 (1988)

Ex parte Mitchell RUTLEDGE. (Re: Mitchell Rutledge v. State of Alabama).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 19, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis N. Balske of Balske and Van Almen, Montgomery, for petitioner.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and William D. Little, William W. Whatley, Jr., and Rivard Melson, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.

Thomas M. Goggans of Goggans, McInnish, Bright & Chambless, Montgomery, for amicus curiae Alabama Crim. Defense Lawyers Assoc.


JONES, Justice.

We granted the defendant's petition for writ of certiorari in this case to review the issue of whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying the defendant's "challenge for cause" as to a certain prospective juror.

Prior to trial, the defendant filed a "voir dire motion in limine" requesting that the court prohibit the district attorney from asking prospective jurors about the Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). The defendant argued...

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