Legal Opinion
Ford v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 19, 1991No. 87-6796PublishedCited by 748 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
Petitioner alleges that the State of Georgia applied the impermissible criterion of race to exclude venire members from the petit jury that convicted him. The Supreme Court of Georgia held petitioner’s equal protection claim procedurally barred as untimely under Georgia law, and we are now called upon to review the adequacy of the State’s procedural rule to bar consideration of the constitutional issue raised. We reverse.
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In September 1984, a grand jury in Coweta County, Georgia, indicted petitioner James A. Ford, a black man, for the kidnaping, rape, and murder of a white woman. The State…
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