Case Name: Curley DEDEAUX v. STATE of Mississippi
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1988-07-20
Citations: 528 So. 2d 300
Docket Number: No. 57479
Parties: Curley DEDEAUX v. STATE of Mississippi.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 528
Pages: 300–301

Head Matter:
Curley DEDEAUX v. STATE of Mississippi.
No. 57479.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
July 20, 1988.
Thomas D. Berry, Jr., Gulfport, for appellant.
Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Leyser Q. Morris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Opinion:
ORDER
ZUCCARO, Justice.
This cause having been decided by this Court in Dedeaux v. State, 519 So.2d 886 (Miss.1988), was remanded on February 3, 1988 to the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Harrison County to determine whether the State could furnish racially neutral reasons for its use of peremptory challenges to strike all prospective black jurors as outlined in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed. 2d 69 (1986), and the State having confessed on remand that it cannot meet the crite ria set forth in Batson, supra, it is therefore,
ORDERED, that the conviction of Curley Dedeaux (set forth in Dedeaux, supra) be and the same is hereby reversed and remanded for a new trial de novo.