Legal Opinion
People v. Jones
California Supreme Court
Decided June 5, 1973No. Crim. 16563PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SULLIVAN, J.
Defendant Leon Dwight Jones was found guilty by a jury of three counts of selling marijuana (Health & Saf. Code, § 11531) and sentenced to state prison for the term prescribed by law. Defendant appeals *548contending that the systematic exclusion from the jury of all residents of the district where the crime was committed violated his right under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution to a trial “by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed” and thereby invalidated his conviction.
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