Smith, S. Pets. v. Beckman Coulter

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• holding harmless error analysis inappropriate in cases involving discrimination injury selection process
• finding that two telephone surveys covering a two-year period were of “brief duration and limited sample size,” thereby “undermin[ing] an inference that substantial underrepresen-tation of blacks took place over a significant period of time”
• considering comparative disparity and absolute disparity, without favoring one over the other, in the course of resolving equal protection and Sixth Amendment challenges
• noting that the “mechanism used to create the source lists was facially neutral with respect to race,” as the New Jersey county in question “utilized voter registration and Department of Motor Vehicle lists to create its jury venire”
• contrasting analysis under Sixth Amendment of unfair jury selection process with analysis under Fourteenth Amendment of purposefully discriminatory jury selection process
• considering comparative disparity and absolute disparity, without favoring one over the other, in the course of resolving equal protection and Sixth Amendment challenges

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