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STATE v. HARRIS

No. 21400.

432 S.E.2d 93 (1993)

189 W.Va. 423

STATE of West Virginia, Appellee, v. Sean Romane HARRIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided June 9, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Atty. Gen., Charleston, for appellee.

McGinnis E. Hatfield, Jr., Roahrig & Hatfield, Princeton, for appellant.

NEELY, Justice:

"The Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among its people." Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 559, 16 S.Ct. 1138, 1146, 41 L.Ed. 256 (1896) (Harlan, J., dissenting). The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees Justice Harlan's vision of a color-blind Constitution to all citizens of the United States. With...

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