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Day: March 31, 2010

Fair Cross Section

March 31, 2010 Jeff Welty

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court decided Berghuis v. Smith, a case in which the defendant claimed that the pool from which his jury was selected was not a fair cross section of the community. In my experience, it is not uncommon for a defendant, particularly a minority defendant, to look at the jury pool … Read more

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