Legal Opinion
State v. Brinson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided November 18, 1970No. 53PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUSKINS, Justice.
Defendants’ first assignment of error is based on denial of their motion to quash the bills of indictment. Defendants are Negroes and allege that members of their race had been systematically excluded from the grand jury.
The question of systematic exclusion of Negroes from grand juries has been repeatedly considered by this Court, most recently in State v. Spencer, 276 N.C. 535, 173 S.E. 2d 765 (1970). There we outlined the familiar rules of law applicable to such situations. We said that the conviction of a Negro based on an indictment or verdict of a jury from which Negroes…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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3Cited by56 opinions
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