NIX, Chief Justice, dissenting. I must dissent. The state’s use of peremptory challenges to exclude jurors on the basis of race has been condemned by the United States Supreme Court as being violative of the equal protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment of the federal constitution. Batson v. Kentucky, <a href="/opinion/111662/batson-v…
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