Zant v. Moon

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 28, 1994

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1994-02-28

Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Congdon v. State

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Decided 1994-02-28

How this case has been cited

Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Burgeson v. State (1996), McMichen v. State (1995)

72 state decisions

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Benham, Justice,

¶1dissenting in part.

¶2Because 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.