Labels:book | reckoner | sky OCR: Harpe?* does not discuss purely prospective application of decision, nor give any guidance 3.5 to rhen such application might be appropriate. fact, as pointed out by Justice O'Connor ir her dissent, the opinion contains language intimating that pure prospectivity, well as se lective pectivity may be bar red by that decision Harper 113 S. .Ct. at 2527 (O'Connor J. dissenting) If the possibility pure prospective application of decision civil case has not been foreclosed, such appl lication should be adopted in the present case if this Court holds that the rul les set out r Batson requiring race -neutral reasons for peremptory strikes should also apply T require gender -neutral reasons for such strikes Such ruling would clearly be new principle 01 law which these Alabama litigants could not h ...