Legal Opinion
Carter v. Jury Comm'n of Greene Cty.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 19, 1970No. 30PublishedCited by 447 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The appellants, Negro citizens of Greene County, Alabama, commenced this class action against officials charged with the administration of the State’s jury-*322selection laws: the county jury commissioners and their clerk, the local circuit court judge, and the Governor of Alabama. The complaint alleged that the appellants were fully qualified to serve as jurors and desired to serve, but had never been summoned for jury service. It charged that the appellees had effected a discriminatory exclusion of Negroes from grand and petit juries in Greene County — the Governor in his selection of the…
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