Johnson v. Commissioner of Correction

In each of these thirty-one habeas corpus actions, the petitioner claims that his conviction is constitutionally flawed because the pool of veniremen available for selection of a petit jury for his trial and, in some instances, for selection of the grand jury that indicted him,1 was tainted by a disproportionate paucity of members of his minority group in violation of his right to equal protection of the laws, as guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to our federal constitution.2 All the petitioners rely upon the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Alston…