Legal Opinion
Teague v. Lane
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 17, 1989No. 87-5259PublishedCited by 5,575 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice O’Connor
In Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U. S. 522 (1975), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment required that the jury venire be drawn from a fair cross section of the community. The Court stated, however, that “in holding that petit juries must be drawn from a source fairly representative of the community we impose no requirement that petit juries actually chosen must mirror the community and reflect the various distinctive groups in the population. Defendants are not entitled to a jury of any particular composition.” Id., at 538. The principal question presented in this case is whether the Sixth…
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