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Argued November 2, 1993.
Decided April 19, 1994.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John F. Porter III argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.
Michael R. Dreeben argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Days, Acting Assistant Attorneys General Keeney and Turner, and Deputy Solicitor General Bryson.
Lois N. Brasfield, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama, argued the cause for respondent. With her on the briefs was William F. Prendergast, Assistant Attorney General.*
Blackmun, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. O'Connor, J., filed a concurring opinion, p. 146. Kennedy, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, p. 151. Rehnquist, C. J., filed a dissenting opinion, p. 154. Scalia, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Thomas, J., joined, p. 156.
United States Supreme Court.
Justice Blackmun, delivered the opinion of the Court.
In Batson v. Kentucky,476 U.S. 79 (1986), this Court held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment governs the exercise of peremptory challenges by a prosecutor in a criminal trial. The Court explained that although a defendant has "no right to a `petit jury composed in whole or in part of persons of his own race,' " id. , at 85, quoting...
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