Williams v. State

Although I concur with the Court in the disposition of this appeal, it seems appropriate to restate my misgivings about too perfunctory a treatment of appellant’s fourth ground of error. Therein, he asserts a violation of his Equal Protection rights when the State exercised its peremptory challenges to exclude all blacks from the jury.

As stated in my concurring opinion in Metiers v. State, 695 S.W.2d 88, 90-91 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1985, no pet.), “[w]here the prosecutor strikes all members of the venire who are members of a recognizable ethnic group, logic would certainly allow, if…