Legal Opinion
Rose v. Mitchell
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided July 2, 1979No. 77-1701PublishedCited by 618 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
delivered the opinion of the Court.†
In this federal habeas corpus case, respondents claim they were the victims of racial discrimination, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, in the selection of the foreman of the Tennessee grand jury that indicted them for murders in the first degree. As the case comes to this Court, no issue of discrimination in the selection of the venire is presented; we are concerned only with the selection of the foreman.
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In November 1972, respondents James E. Mitchell and James Nichols, Jr., and two other men were jointly indicted by…
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