No. 89-KD-2020 Precedential Processed

State ex rel. Jones v. Butler

Louisiana Supreme Court · Filed August 24, 1989 · 547 So. 2d 730

Also decided on this docket: La., October 6, 1989 549 So. 2d 315

Opinion text

In re Jones, Andrew Lee; —Plaintiff(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writ; Parish of East Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court, Div. “J”, No. 2-84-743. Granted. The execution is stayed. The case is remanded to the district court to conduct an evidentiary hearing and rule on the claim that the state exercised jury challenges in a racially discriminatory manner contrary to the principles mandated by the United States Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 , 106 S.Ct. 1712 , 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).