Legal Opinion
Maurice Laroche v. Everett I. Perrin, Warden, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 30, 1983No. 82-1650PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
On this appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 from the summary denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, petitioner attacks the jury selection system in effect in New Hampshire at the time he was tried, complaining as to underrepresentation of blacks with respect to grand juries, and of young persons on petit juries. We sustain him as to the latter.
Petitioner was indicted for first degree assault by a Rockingham County grand jury in June, 1980. He moved before trial to dismiss the indictment and to quash the petit jury venire on the ground that the jury…
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- United States v. ButeraCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1970
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