Case Name: STATE ex rel. Andrew Lee JONES v. Robert H. BUTLER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1989-08-24
Citations: 547 So. 2d 730
Docket Number: No. 89-KD-2020
Parties: STATE ex rel. Andrew Lee JONES v. Robert H. BUTLER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 547
Pages: 730–730

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Andrew Lee JONES v. Robert H. BUTLER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.
No. 89-KD-2020.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Aug. 24, 1989.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 6, 1989.

Opinion:
In re Jones, Andrew Lee; —Plaintiff(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writ; Parish of East Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court, Div. "J", No. 2-84-743.
Granted. The execution is stayed. The case is remanded to the district court to conduct an evidentiary hearing and rule on the claim that the state exercised jury challenges in a racially discriminatory manner contrary to the principles mandated by the United States Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).