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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

672 A.2d 785
    COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Petitioner, v. Joseph RICO, Respondent.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    March 18, 1996.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM:

AND NOW, this 18th day of March, 1996, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby GRANTED, and oral argument is limited to the issue of whether Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), applies where the prosecutor in a case allegedly involving organized crime has exercised peremptory challenges to disqualify prospective jurors of Italian descent.