Case Name: Dwayne HARDY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1987-03-18
Citations: 726 S.W.2d 158
Docket Number: No. 014-87
Parties: Dwayne HARDY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas.
Judges: ONION, P.J., and W.C. DAVIS and TEAGUE, JJ., would grant across the board.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 726
Pages: 158–159

Head Matter:
Dwayne HARDY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas.
No. 014-87.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.
March 18, 1987.
Connie B. Williams, Houston, for appellant.
John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty. and David E. Brothers, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Robert Huttash, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
Appellant was convicted by a jury of aggravated rape. The jury assessed punishment at 60 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. On appeal the Houston [14th] Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. Hardy v. State, 722 S.W.2d 164 (Tex.App. — Houston [14th] 1986).
Appellant raises three grounds for review, one of which asserts the Court of Appeals was in error in holding that Bat-son v. Kentucky, 476 U.S.-, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986) is not to be applied retroactively. In the period since the Court of Appeals delivered their opinion in this cause the United States Supreme Court has determined that Batson v. Kentucky, supra, is to be applied to all cases which were still pending on direct appeal at the time Batson was delivered. Griffith v. Kentucky, — U.S.-, 107 S.Ct. 708, 93 L.Ed.2d 649 (1987).
Without passing on the merits of appellant's other grounds for review, we find appellant's petition must be granted on this ground, and the cause remanded to the Court of Appeals for reconsideration in light of Griffith v. Kentucky, supra.
ONION, P.J., and W.C. DAVIS and TEAGUE, JJ., would grant across the board.
TEAGUE, J., also dissents to the remand.