Kidder v. State

Jonathan Torin Kidder v. State of Maryland No. 53, September Term 2020 Criminal Procedure – Right to an Impartial Jury – Jury Selection. Article 21 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights and the Sixth Amendment to the federal Constitution both guarantee a defendant charged with a serious crime the right to a trial by an impartial jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the community, although that does not mean that a jury must contain representatives of all the economic, social, religious, racial, political, and geographical groups of the community. The process used to select a jury must meet…