People v. Smith

The question presented in this case is whether Kent County’s former system of selecting jurors denied defendant his Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury drawn from a fair cross section of *203the community. To establish a prima facie violation of the fair cross-section requirement, a defendant must show that a distinctive group was underrepresented in his venire or jury pool, and that the under-representation was the result of systematic exclusion of the group from the jury selection process. Duren v Missouri, 439 US 357, 364; 99 S Ct 664; 58 L Ed 2d 579 (1979). We hold that defendant was…