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Ramirez v. State

Citations

  • 575 S.E.2d 462
  • 276 Ga. 158
  • 2003 Fulton County D. Rep. 149
  • 2003 Ga. LEXIS 17

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  • holding that the most recent decennial census is the appropriate benchmark for a jury composition claim
  • holding that, within each of the various legal grounds for challenging the composition of a jury pool, a defendant bears the burden of showing actual underrepresentation
  • finding that the same statistical thresholds are applicable to equal protection claims and fair cross-section jury claims
  • finding that the same statistical thresholds are applicable to equal protect claims and fair cross-section jury claims
  • Court approved a grand jury selection procedure fixing the percentage of African-American persons on the grand jury source list to the percentage of African-American persons in the county as reported in the most recent census in accordance with the requirements of the UAP
  • discussing the alleged under-representation of cognizable groups

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Judges: Benham

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