Woodson v. Porter Brown Limestone Co.

OPINION

WHITE, Justice.

In this appeal from the Cheatham County Circuit Court, we are confronted by a unique aberration of the rules of law announced by the United States Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky, Powers v. Ohio, and Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, Inc. In that series of cases, the United States Supreme Court recognized first, that the criminal defendant’s rights are violated when race-based challenges exclude a juror from service, Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1985); second, that the exclusion likewise violates a juror’s rights, Powers v.…