Legal Opinion
Rideau v. Whitley
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 22, 2000No. 99-30849PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS, Circuit Judge:
In this federal habeas corpus case, the petitioner claims that he was the victim of racial discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, in the selection of the Louisiana grand jury that indicted him for murder.
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The petitioner, Wilbert Rideau, was indicted on March 1, 1961, for the capital murder of Julia Ferguson, a bank employee, on February 16, 1961, in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. After his armed robbery of a bank in the city of Lake Charles, Rideau forced the victim and two other bank employees to accompany him in the…
2Cases cited61 opinions
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