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WOODSON v. PORTER BROWN LIMESTONE CO.

916 S.W.2d 896 (1996)

Bennie WOODSON, as Administrator of the Estate of Elizabeth W. Terrell, Deceased, and as Administrator of the Estate of John Thomas Woodson, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PORTER BROWN LIMESTONE COMPANY, INC., and Felix Ewing Morris, Defendants/Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

February 14, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Buntin Steiner and Frank Steiner, Steiner & Steiner, Nashville, for Plaintiff/Appellant.

Robert E. Hoehn and John B. Carlson, Watkins, McGugin, McNeilly & Rowan, Nashville, for Defendants/Appellees.

OPINION

WHITE, Justice.

In this appeal from the Cheatham County Circuit Court, we are confronted by a unique aberration of the rules of law announced by the United States Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky, Powers v. Ohio, and Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, Inc. In that series of cases, the United States Supreme Court recognized first, that the criminal defendant's rights are violated when race-based challenges exclude a juror from...

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