Soria v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a Sixth Amendment fair cross-section claim defaulted in state court was foreclosed from federal review absent a showing of cause and 5 prejudice
• holding a federal habeas petitioner procedurally defaulted on a fair cross-section complaint by failing to raise it in a direct appeal that became final in 1997
• Soria was not entitled to challenge prospective jurors for cause who might view his evidence offered in mitigation as aggravating
• Reliance on Simmons was unavailing as the defendant was eligible for parole after a term of years.
• “the fact that an identifiable minority group votes in a proportion lower than the rest of the population and is therefore underrepresented [sic] on jury panels presents no constitutional issue.”
• “[B]ecause [the venire member] did not sit on [the petitioner’s] jury, [the petitioner] is precluded from making a substantial showing of the denial of a federal right with respect to this claim.”

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