Ex Parte Mathis

We granted certiorari review in this case to address the issue of whether the petitioner, a white male defendant, had standing, under the principles of Batson v. Kentucky,476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), to claim that the prosecutor's alleged use of peremptory challenges to remove black jurors from the trial venire violated his constitutional rights.1

The Court of Criminal Appeals, stating what it thought to be the law, held that a "nonblack" defendant could not raise aBatson challenge, but did note that "the standard articulated in Batson may be broadened at some future…