State v. Fulton

In his three propositions of law, appellant claims that the Holmes County Jury Commissioners systematically excluded potential grand jurors and petit jurors from the jury array on the basis of their Amish religious beliefs, thereby depriving appellant of his rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and under R.C. Chapter 2313. For the reasons which follow, we find appellant’s arguments lack merit.

As a threshold to our inquiry we shall set forth the constitutional distinctions which have been recognized when examining the grand jury versus the petit…