State ex Rel. Jones v. Butler

Granted. The execution is stayed. The case is remanded to the District court to conduct an evidentiary hearing and rule in the claim that the state exercised jury challenges in a racially discriminatory manner contrary to the principles mandated by the United States Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).