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Supreme Court· 7/14/1953

Avery v. Georgia

Citations

  • 345 U.S. 559
  • 73 S. Ct. 891
  • 97 L. Ed. 2d 1244
  • 1953 U.S. LEXIS 2051

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that jury selection based on race warrants reversal of a conviction regardless of the strength of the evidence presented
  • holding that jury selection based on race warrants reversal of a conviction regardless of the strength of the evidence presented
  • holding that lawyers and the court that she could “lay aside [her] . . . jury selection based on race warrants reversal of a conviction opinion [about the drug laws] and render a verdict based on regardless of the strength of the evidence presented
  • concluding there was a prima facie case of discrimination for a jury selection process that used different ticket colors to identify a juror’s race and that yielded no African-American jurors
  • names of Blacks and whites in both source and functional equivalent of master jury wheel contained on different color index cards
  • use of different colored tickets for whites and blacks gave opportunity to discriminate at various stages in the selection process

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Judges: Vinson, Reed, Frankfurter, Black, Jackson

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