Supreme Court of North Carolina July 9, 1998, 117A96 (State v. Fletcher)

Justice Frye

dissenting in part.

As the majority correctly indicates, the use of peremptory challenges for racially discriminatory reasons violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 90 L. Ed. 2d 69 (1986).