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EX PARTE YELDER

89-1540.

575 So.2d 137 (1991)

Ex parte Timothy John YELDER. (Re Timothy John Yelder v. State).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 11, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Parker and R.B. Jones, Birmingham, for petitioner.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Beth Jackson Hughes, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

SHORES, Justice.

This petition for certiorari presents a case of first impression in Alabama. Yelder argues that he was denied effective assistance of counsel in that at his trial his lawyer did not object, under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), to the State's use of its peremptory challenges to strike 17 of 18 black jurors. The legal standard for determining claims of ineffective assistance...

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