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CHERRY v. ABBOTT

45882.

258 Ga. 517 (1988)

371 S.E.2d 852

CHERRY v. ABBOTT.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Cherry, pro se.

Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, J. Michael Davis, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.

GREGORY, Justice.

Petitioner, a black male, filed a writ of habeas corpus contending the state had exercised its peremptory strikes to exclude all black jurors from the panel selected to try his case, and therefore his convictions were in violation of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (106 S.C. 1712, 90 LE2d 69) (1986). Batson had not been decided at the time of petitioner's trial.1 Petitioner...

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