Ciudadanos Unidos De San Juan v. Hidalgo County Grand Jury Commissioners, Robert Caballero v. Dellis Prater

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• concluding that a federal court could require local jury commissioners to formulate policies to ensure that indigent individuals, among other groups, were adequately represented in grand jury pool
• noting that the jury rolls excluded minorities because selection was “left entirely to the discretion of the jury commissioners”
• noting that “[i]n those cases in which a statutory amendment has been held to moot a controversy arising under the prior version of the statute, the amendment has generally been one which completely eliminated the harm of which plaintiffs complained”
• allowing young, Mexican American, and impoverished jurors to contest their systemic exclusion from grand juries in two Rio Grande Valley counties
• Mexican-Americans had standing to obtain prospective relief when jury commissioners systematically excluded them from grand jury service over a ten year period
• “In those cases in which a statutory amendment has been held to moot a controversy arising under the prior version of the statute, the amendment has generally been one which completely eliminated the harm of which plaintiffs complained.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).