Title: Gordon v. State
Citation: 587 So. 2d 434
Docket Number: N/A
State: Alabama
Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court
Date: June 14, 1991

587 So. 2d 434 (1991)
Ex parte Charles Wayne GORDON.
Re Charles Wayne Gordon
v.
State.
89-1562.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
June 14, 1991.
*435 Joe N. Lampley, Huntsville, for petitioner.
Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Rosa Hamlett Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
MADDOX, Justice.
The Court of Criminal Appeals held, 587 So. 2d 427, that "Under Batson [v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S. Ct. 1712, 90 L. Ed. 2d 69 (1986),] and numerous Alabama decisions following Batson, a defendant, in order to establish a prima facie Equal Protection Clause violation, `must show that he is a member of a cognizable racial group... and that the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges to remove from the venire members of the defendant's race.' Batson, 476 U.S.  at 96 [106 S. Ct.  at 1723]. See also, e.g., Turner v. State, 521 So. 2d 93 (Ala.Cr.App.1987); Swain v. State, 504 So. 2d 347 (Ala.Cr.App.1986)." The court also held as follows:
587 So. 2d  at 428.
The Supreme Court of the United States in Powers v. Ohio, ___ U.S. ___, 111 S. Ct. 1364, 113 L. Ed. 2d 411 (1991), held that white defendants do have standing to challenge the state's use of peremptory challenges to remove black jurors from a petit jury.
The Court has today given a thorough examination of this issue in light of Powers and in light of Alabama law. See Ex parte Bird, [Ms. 89-1061, June 14, 1991], 1991 WL 114762 (Ala.1991).[*]
The judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals is reversed and the cause is remanded to that court for further consideration in light of the holding in Powers v. Ohio and Ex parte Bird.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
HORNSBY, C.J., and ALMON, SHORES, STEAGALL and INGRAM, JJ., concurs.
[*]  Reporter of Decisions' note: The June 14, 1991, opinion was withdrawn and a new opinion issued on December 6, 1991.