Legal Opinion
Rogers v. McMullen
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 19, 1982No. 80-5925PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
R. LANIER ANDERSON, III, Circuit Judge:
The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether habeas petitioner Daniel Rogers1 was denied his right to a trial by an impartial jury guaranteed to him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments because of the presence of a seventeen year-old girl on the six-member jury panel that heard his case. We conclude that the constitutional right to a jury trial does not include a per se rule prohibiting seventeen year-olds from serving as jurors, and further that Rogers did not show that the seventeen year-old juror in question was biased or otherwise…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Duncan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Smith v. PhillipsSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Peters v. KiffSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Snowden v. SingletaryCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
- Marshall Dwayne Hughes v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
- Ronald Clark O'Bryan v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Bernard Depree v. A.G. Thomas, Warden and Michael J. BowersCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1991
- Larry Eugene Mann v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
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