Court Opinion

ID: 9569476
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:14:09.114487+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:59:38.437223
License: Public Domain

Benham, Justice,
dissenting in part.
Because I believe the habeas corpus court was correct in finding a violation under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79 (106 SC 1712, 90 LE2d 69) (1986), I must respectfully dissent to the reversal of that ruling in Division 1 of the majority opinion. Here, as in Congdon v. State, 262 Ga. 683 (424 SE2d 630) (1993), a juror was excluded in part because she is a member of a specific African-American community. That is not a race-neutral reason for exercising a peremptory challenge and the habeas corpus court was correct in so ruling.