State v. Lopez

(specially concurring).

I concur in the result reached by the majority as to the first issue and concur in the issues answered summarily.

Defendants objected to the absence of La Raza Unida members on the jury venire. It was defendants’ contention that La Raza Unida members were systematically excluded from the jury wheel because they did not vote in the previous general election because there were no La Raza Unida candidates in that election. The clerk of the court testified that names for the jury wheel were drawn from the poll books. The poll books contain the names of persons who voted in…