Legal Opinion
Joseph Ambrose v. Raymond Booker
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 28, 2012No. 11-1430, 10-1247, 09-1539PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
These habeas petitions involve the far-reaching effects of an unintentional computer glitch that caused the systematic underrepresentation of African-Americans in the jury pools of Kent County, Michigan. The three petitioners received separate jury trials in Kent County in either 2001 or 2002. At jury selection, the petitioners did not object to the racial composition of their respective jury venires, and were subsequently convicted. A few months later, the Grand Rapids Press published a story detailing how Kent County’s jury selection software had a computer…
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