Petley v. United States

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• holding that due process requires that jurors be sane and competent in order to validate the fact-finding aspect of a trial
• recognizing that a defendant has a “due process right to a competent and impartial tribunal”
• holding that a white defendant had standing to challenge discrimination against Blacks in the selection of the grand jury
• holding that the indictment and conviction of a White criminal defendant could not stand if Blacks were systematically excluded from the grand jury and the petit jury
• holding criminal defendant has standing to challenge jury selection on Fourteenth Amendment due process grounds notwithstanding fact that defendant is not member of protected class allegedly excluded
• adverting to long history of constitutional protection from actually or potentially biased tribunal

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