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The Unconstitutionality of Discriminatory Jury Selection
The foundation for an analysis of the right to be a juror, or be tried by a jury of peers is securely rooted in the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The Sixth Amendment prohibits any substantial under-representation of minorities. The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment …
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More from this issue:
- The Unconstitutionality of Discriminatory Jury Selection, by Emmet Jones
- Michigan Prisoner Challenges Jury Selection Process, by Dan Pens
- Prison Racial Segregation Illegal
- The Death Penalty in Black and White, by Michael Ross
- Demanding Death, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Delay in Dental Care Creates Fact Dispute
- PA Prisoners Enjoy Right to Parole Consideration, by William Marshall
- Disciplinary Guilty Plea No Waiver to Suit
- Breach of Contract Claim OK Against Medical Contractor
- BOP Ad Seg Rules Create Liberty Interest
- New Trial for Beating
- VA "Men Only" Boot Camp Illegal
- WA Mail Policy Illegal
- Further Developments in WA Powell Case, by John Midgley
- Airway Heights Opens
- WA DOC Enjoined From Taking Costs
- Few Programs for FL Women Prisoners
- S.Ct. Distinguishes Habeas and Section 1983
- Two Dead in CT Riots
- Juries Tougher on Prisoner Litigators in Big Law Suits, by Dale Gardner
- PA Supreme Court Justice Sentenced
- Prison TV: Luxury or Management Tool?, by Paul Wright
- News in Brief
- FL DOC Corruption
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Justice for Mark Cook - It's Way Past Time
- Letter From Mark Cook, by Mark Cook
- South American Prison News
- Art and Writings Against the Death Penalty / Save Mumia Abu Jamal
- The "Correcting Corrections" Project Distributes Prison Video Documentaries
More from Emmet Jones:
- The Unconstitutionality of Discriminatory Jury Selection, Sept. 15, 1994
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