Court Opinion

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Fletcher, Justice,
concurring specially.
In State v. McCollum, 261 Ga. 473 (405 SE2d 688), cert. granted, (112 SC 370) (1991), a majority of this court refused to apply the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., _ U. S. __ (111 SC 2077, 114 LE2d 660) (1991) to defendants in criminal actions. Edmonson held that the process of jury selection in civil actions constitutes state action and, consequently, that the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause prohibits both parties in a civil action from exercising their peremptory jury strikes in a racially discriminatory manner.
The United States Supreme Court has subsequently granted the State of Georgia’s application for a writ of certiorari in McCollum. Because that writ was issued to decide the very question that is *846presented by the present action, I concur specially to the majority’s decision in order to preserve the status quo pending the United States Supreme Court’s decision in McCollum.1
Decided February 6, 1992.
Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, William S. Askew, Assistant District Attorney, for appellant.
Maloy & Jenkins, W. Bruce Maloy, Mary E. Erickson, Michael J. Moses, for appellee.

 I am of the opinion that the direction which the United States Supreme Court will choose to take in McCollum will be that which is set forth in my dissenting opinion in Mc-Collum.