MILLER-EL V. DRETKE June 13, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court overturns a Texas death row inmate's conviction, in a 6-3 decision, concluding that "[t]he prosecutors' chosen race-neutral reasons for the strike[ing]" blacks from the jury panel were discriminatory.
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/03-9659.html
<...> When Dallas County prosecutors used peremptory strikes against 10 of the 11 qualified black venire members during jury selection for petitioner Miller-El's capital murder trial, he objected, claiming that the strikes were based on race and could not be presumed legitimate since the District Attorney's Office had a history of excluding blacks from criminal juries. The trial court denied his request for a new jury, and his trial ended with a death sentence. <...>
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