Ex Parte Love

We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether the rule of Batson v. Kentucky, ___ U.S. ___, 106 S.Ct. 1712,90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), should be given retroactive application to collateral review of convictions that became final prior to the release of the Batson decision.

Petitioner, Jimmy Louis Love, was convicted of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction, and this Court denied Love's petition for a writ of certiorari.

Thereafter, Love filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis in the…