Legal Opinion
Rosales-Lopez v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 21, 1981No. 79-6624PublishedCited by 702 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice White, joined by Justice Stewart, Justice Blackmun, and Justice Powell
The question here is whether it was reversible error for a federal trial court in a criminal case to reject the defendant’s request that the court’s voir dire of prospective jurors inquire further into the possibility of racial or ethnic prejudice against the defendant.
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Petitioner is of Mexican descent. In February 1979, he was tried before a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California for his alleged participation in a plan by which three Mexican aliens were illegally brought into the country.1
The Government’s evidence at trial described the following…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Aldridge v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
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3Cited by702 opinions
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