2011-KK-1866 Precedential Processed

State v. Mason

Louisiana Supreme Court · Filed August 29, 2011 · 68 So. 3d 513

Also decided on this docket: La., August 29, 2011 68 So. 3d 513

Cited by

Tate v. Tate 180 So. 3d 429 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2015
State v. Coleman 121 So. 3d 703 La. Ct. App. 2d Cir. 2013
State v. Mason 109 So. 3d 429 La. Ct. App. 2d Cir. 2013

Opinion text

68 So.3d 513 (2011) STATE of Louisiana v. James E. MASON, Jr. No. 2011-KK-1866. Supreme Court of Louisiana. August 29, 2011. 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, 505 U.S. 42 , 112 S.Ct. 2348 , 120 L.Ed.2d 33 (1992) challenge to prospective jurors Michelle Blake and Mary Cope is reversed. The case is remanded to the district court for re-seating of these two prospective jurors and for all further proceedings. JOHNSON, J., would deny. KNOLL, J., would deny.