Legal Opinion
Sanford v. Hutto
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided June 3, 1975No. PB-74-C-168PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
HENLEY, Circuit Judge, Sitting by Designation.
The petitioners in this habeas corpus proceeding, Negro males named Maurice Sanford and Jim Johnson, are incarcerated in the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction pursuant to their conviction for rape in St. Francis County Circuit Court after a jury trial in October, 1969. 1 They challenge their conviction on the ground that county officials purposely and systematically excluded Negroes from the jury venire from which the jury panel that convicted the petitioners was chosen. After consideration of the evidence…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Alexander v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Smith v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Norris v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Whitus v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Finney v. HuttoDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1976
- Hall v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1976
- Joe Grady Murrah v. State of Arkansas, and A. L. Lockhart, Superintendent, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
- Maurice Sanford and Jim Johnson v. Terrell Don Hutto, Commissioner, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1975
- Waller v. ButkovichDistrict Court, M.D. North Carolina · 1984
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