Legal Opinion
Alston v. Manson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 23, 1986No. Nos. 942, 943, Docket 85-2358, 85-2361PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
Drawn from hamlet and metropolis alike, jurors daily give life to the ancient right, enshrined in the Magna Carta and the Constitution, to a trial by jury of one’s peers. Although now summoned by statute instead of the medieval sheriffs writ of ve-nire facias, a representative jury array remains the expression of the community’s role in securing this fundamental right. Accordingly, both the sixth and fourteenth amendments mandate that prospective jurors be chosen free of the taint of racial discrimination.
It is the interplay of these two provisions that is now…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Duren v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Castaneda v. PartidaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Smith v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Carter v. Jury Comm'n of Greene Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- United States v. Richard Albert JenkinsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by49 opinions
- United States v. LovingCourt of Appeals for the Armed Forces · 1994
- United States v. Maldonado-RiveraCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- United States v. Maldonado-RiveraCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- United States v. Mario Biaggi, Stanley Simon, Richard Biaggi, Peter Neglia, John Mariotta, and Bernard EhrlichCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- Johnson v. Commissioner of CorrectionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1991
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