Legal Opinion
People v. Chesler
New York Supreme Court
Decided September 8, 1977PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilmer J. Patlow, J.
This is a motion by defendant, pursuant to CPL 270.10, challenging the composition of the Monroe County jury pool. The grounds for the challenge are that women, Blacks, young people between the ages of 18 and 24, and city residents are underrepresented and that such underrepresentation violates the! defendant’s constitutional rights by denying him a fair trial by a jury representative of a cross section of the community.
An extensive evidentiary hearing was held before this court.
The Monroe County jury pool consists of 65,456 names and is known as a permanent pool. Ih order to analyze the…
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- United States v. CohenDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1967
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