Writ granted. Given counsel's initial admission that race was a motivating factor in the exercise of his peremptory challenges, the district court abused its discretion in determining that counsel's subsequent attempt to set forth racially neutral reasons for his decisions, with respect to prospective jurors Michelle Blake and Mary Cope, was not pretextual. The ruling of the district court denying the State's Georgia v. McCollum,
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STATE v. MASON
No. 2011-KK-1866.
68 So.3d 513 (2011)
STATE of Louisiana v. James E. MASON, Jr.
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August 29, 2011.
August 29, 2011.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
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