Henry Willis, III v. Walter B. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center

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• holding that a Georgia petitioner under a sentence of death had stated a claim under Swain such as to entitle him to an evidentiary hearing
• holding that a Georgia petitioner under a sentence of death had stated a claim under Swain such as to entitle him to an evidentiary hearing
• the distinctiveness of a group for Sixth Amendment purposes depends in part on the time and location of the trial; for example, Latins may be a distinctive group in some communities and not in others
• prosecutor may rebut in two ways
• winning Swain claims extremely difficult

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