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STATE v. LEVINSON

No. 14473.

795 P.2d 845 (1990)

STATE of Hawaii, Petitioner, v. Steven H. LEVINSON, Judge of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaii, Alexander S. Carvalho, Jr., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

July 16, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward H. Kubo, Jr., Office of the Pros. Atty., Honolulu, for petitioner.

Edwin L. Baker, Dept. of the Atty. Gen., Honolulu, for respondent Levinson.

Robert Finlay, Honolulu, for respondent Carvalho.

Before LUM, C.J., and PADGETT, HAYASHI, WAKATSUKI and MOON, JJ.

PADGETT, Judge.

This case comes before us on a petition for a writ of mandamus or prohibition. It raises a question of whether under our State Constitution, a defendant's attorney, in a felony case, may, in exercising peremptory challenges of jurors, intentionally and deliberately pursue a pattern of excluding women, because they are women, from the jury. We answer no, and grant appropriate relief.

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