United States v. Lorchid Goff, United States of America v. Deola R. Richardson

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

In these appeals two criminal defendants claim that we must reverse their mail fraud convictions 1 since the jury selection process in their cases violated the standards of the Jury Selection Act of 1968. 28 U.S.C. § 1861 et seq. In the district court, appellants properly filed a timely motion to dismiss the indictments for failure to comply with the Jury Selection Act. 28 U.S.C. § 1867(a). They based their challenge to the Eastern District of Louisiana’s jury pool on inadequate representation of blacks, and poor people. The district court denied the motion, finding…