Legal Opinion
United States v. Layton
District Court, N.D. California
Decided June 24, 1981No. CR-80-416 RFPPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
PECKHAM, Chief Judge.
The defendant Laurence Layton moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that the procedures employed to select the members of the grand jury which indicted him are constitutionally and statutorily defective.
The defendant was indicted on October 9, 1980, by Grand Jury No. 80-6. The foreman of that grand jury was a white male, as is Mr. Layton. The grand jury had been impanelled on September 10, 1980, from names drawn from the list of persons who registered to vote in this district in the 1976 general election. Counsel were appointed in early…
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