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Williams v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 8, 1987No. 57307PublishedCited by 42 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

507 So.2d 50 (1987)

Albert Leroy WILLIAMS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 57307.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 8, 1987.

Rehearing Denied June 3, 1987.

Laurie S. Caldwell, Gulfport, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I

We are concerned today with allegations of racially motivated peremptory challenges by a prosecutor in a criminal trial, recognizing that our course must be recharted in the wake of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S.…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Griffith v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  3. Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  4. Avery v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
  5. Allen v. HardySupreme Court of the United States · 1986

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3Cited by42 opinions

  1. Lockett v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1987
  2. Foster v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1987
  3. Nixon v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1987
  4. Davis v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989
  5. Abram v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1992

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