California Supreme Court· 9/25/1978

People v. Wheeler

Citations

583 P.2d 748
22 Cal. 3d 258
148 Cal. Rptr. 890
1978 Cal. LEXIS 287

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prosecution’s exercise of peremptory challenge based solely on group affiliation violates constitutional right to jury drawn from a representative cross-section of the community
prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges to remove prospective jurors on basis of race violates state constitution
\[A] party is constitutionally entitled to a petit jury that is as near an approximation of the ideal cross-section of the community as the process of random draw permits.\
“[A] party is constitutionally entitled to a petit jury that is as near an approximation of the ideal cross-section of the community as the process of random draw permits.”
”[w]hat it does mean ... is that a party is constitutionally entitled to a petit jury that is as near an approximation of the ideal cross-section of the community as the process of random draw permits”
state constitutional case using sixth amendment analysis

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Judges: Mosk, Bird

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