Knight v. State

ON RETURN TO REMAND

TAYLOR, Judge.

The appellant, Isaiah Knight, was convicted of murder, a violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to life in prison. After the United States Supreme Court released its opinion in J.E.B. v. Alabama, — U.S. —, 114 S.Ct. 1419, 128 L.Ed.2d 89 (1994), holding that Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), extended to gender-based peremptory strikes, we remanded this ease so that a Batson hearing could be held. Knight v. State, 652 So.2d 769 (Ala.Cr.App.1994).

The appellant argued that males were struck from his…