Commonwealth v. Acen

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that jury service is “critical to the just operation of the court system”
• stating \those who are unable to read English are not a suspect class under the equal protection clause\
• stating “those who are unable to read English are not a suspect class under the equal protection clause”
• non-English speaking persons do not form a distinct or protected group deserving of protection under art. 12 or the Sixth Amendment
• Jury service is “too critical to the just operation of the court system” to be placed in the hands of those lacking the requisite attributes of citizenship
• upholding constitutionality of citizen ship requirement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).