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STATE v. WILLIS

No. 569A87.

420 S.E.2d 158 (1992)

332 N.C. 151

STATE of North Carolina v. James Earl WILLIS, Donna Sue Cox.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 4, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Doris J. Holton, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Joan H. Byers, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

William L. Davis, III and Donald W. Bullard, Pembroke, for defendant-appellant James Earl Willis.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, by Staples Hughes, Asst. Appellate Defender, Benjamin S. Sendor, Sp. Asst. to the Director, N.C. Death Penalty Resource Center, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant Donna Sue Cox.

WEBB, Justice.

The defendant Willis' first assignment of error deals with a pre-trial motion. Willis made a motion to prohibit the State from exercising peremptory challenges to jurors "based on group bias." The defendant contended he was an Indian which made him a member of a cognizable racial group and entitled him to object to peremptory challenges to jurors on racial grounds under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct...

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