Ballard v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that jury sentencing was a purely statutory right
• a court \will not overturn a ... classification on equal protection grounds unless [the statute] is so unrelated to the achievement of a legitimate purpose that it [is] irrational\
• a court “will not overturn a . . . classification on equal protection grounds unless [the statute] is so unrelated to the achievement of a legitimate purpose that it [is] irrational”
• sentence in criminal prosecution of an adult is “fixed” by jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).