United States v. Carmichael

OPINION AND ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

Defendants Leon Carmichael, Sr. and Freddie Williams have challenged the makeup of the jury venire and the method of selection of the trial jury that convicted them of conspiring to distribute marijuana and, in Carmichael’s case, conspiring to commit money laundering. As relief, the defendants request that the court grant a new trial. The defendants base their challenge on the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fifth Amendment; the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the community; the Jury…