State v. Levinson

*493OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PADGETT, J.

This case comes before us on a petition for a writ of mandamus or prohibition. It raises a question of whether under our State Constitution, a defendant's attorney, in a felony case, may, in exercising peremptory challenges of jurors, intentionally and deliberately pursue a pattern of excluding women, because they are women, from the jury. We answerno, and grant appropriate relief.

On January 19, 1988, respondent Alexander S. “Boy” Carvalho, Jr., was charged with the murder of his wife. Jury selection commenced in the courtroom of respondent Steven H. Levinson…