FAISON v. HUDSON

Record No. 910968.

417 S.E.2d 305 (1992)

William Ivory FAISON, et al. v. Gail M. HUDSON, Administrator of the Estate of Ulus Grant Hudson, Jr., Deceased.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Trent S. Kerns, Richmond (Bradford T. Johnson, Kerns & Kastenbaum, on briefs), for appellants.

Larry A. Pochucha, Richmond (Dennis W. Dohnal, Bremner, Baber & Janus, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


STEPHENSON, Justice.

In this appeal, we determine whether the peremptory striking of a black person from the jury panel violated the rule first pronounced in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), and extended to civil litigation in Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. 2077, 114 L.Ed.2d 660 (1991). Other issues relate to jury instructions and to the admissibility of...

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