Rivers v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• finding failure to object to racial discrimination in jury selection was ineffective assistance of counsel
• finding failure to object to racial discrimination in jury selection was ineffective assistance of counsel
• finding failure to object to racial discrimination in jury selection was ineffective assis- tance of counsel
• finding it “impossible to conclude from [defense counsel’s] statements that he had made a reasoned, professional judgment that not raising the issue [of systematic exclusion of blacks from the jury pool] was in [petitioner’s] interest”
• “The systematic exclusion of blacks from the juries would require relief without a showing of actual prejudice from the errors.”
• “[W]e would have greater confidence in the [result reached by a racially mixed jury], finding much less probability that racial bias had affected it”.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).