MADDOX, Justice.
The dispositive issue in this review by certiorari is whether the petitioner timely raised his claim that the district attorney impermissibly used peremptory challenges to remove black persons from the venire at his initial trial. In order to address that issue it is necessary to determine whether petitioner's case was "pending on direct appeal" at the time Batson v. Kentucky,
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