State ex rel. Jones v. Butler
| Decision Date | 24 August 1989 |
| Docket Number | No. 89-KD-2020,89-KD-2020 |
| Citation | 547 So.2d 730 |
| Parties | STATE ex rel. Andrew Lee JONES v. Robert H. BUTLER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary. 547 So.2d 730 |
| Court | Louisiana Supreme Court |
In re Jones, Andrew Lee; --Plaintiff(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writ; Parish of East Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court, Div. "J", No. 2-84-743.
Granted. The execution is stayed. The case is remanded to the district court to conduct an evidentiary hearing and rule on the claim that the state exercised jury challenges in a racially discriminatory manner contrary to the principles mandated by the United States Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).
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Jones v. Whitley
...habeas relief to Jones and remanded the case to the trial court solely for a hearing on an unrelated Batson ground. State ex rel. Jones v. Butler, 547 So.2d 730 (La.1989). Relief was again denied on remand to the trial Jones's third state habeas petition was filed July 10, 1991, twelve days......
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