HENINSTON STEVEN FRANCIS v. MARY LOUISE RODRIGUEZ

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing that Duren first and foremost requires a habeas petitioner to show that the under- representation complained of was due to systematic exclusion
• acknowledging that no decision of the Court has specified the proper method or methods by which underrepresentation is appropriately measured and taking no position on the method or methods that should be used
• acknowledging that no decision of the Court has specified the proper method or methods by which underrepresentation is appropriately measured and taking no position on the method or methods that should be used
• explaining that a defendant must show that “systematic exclusion accounts for the underrepresentation.”
• emphasizing that the defendant bears the burden to prove the third element as part of the prima facie case and generally must point to more than statistical evidence tending to show a disparity
• describing the Sixth Amendment right to a jury “drawn from sources reflecting a fair cross section of the community” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).