Mississippi Supreme Court, 1988

Dedeaux v. State

Dedeaux v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided July 20, 1988 · Zuccaro
528 So. 2d 300; 1988 Miss. LEXIS 318; 1988 WL 76085 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Dedeaux v. State

Opinion of the Court

ORDER

ZUCCARO, Justice.

This cause having been decided by this Court in Dedeaux v. State, 519 So.2d 886 (Miss. 1988), was remanded on February 3, 1988 to the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Harrison County to determine whether the State could furnish racially neutral reasons for its use of peremptory challenges to strike all prospective black jurors as outlined in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed. 2d 69 (1986), and the State having confessed on remand that it cannot meet the crite*301ria set forth in Batson, supra, it is therefore,

ORDERED, that the conviction of Curley Dedeaux (set forth in Dedeaux, supra) be and the same is hereby reversed and remanded for a new trial de novo.

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