Tommie J. Smith v. Robert A. Farley, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison

How courts have described this case

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• prosecutor's reference to African-American witness as \shucking and jiving on the stand” and reference to African-American defendants as “boys” did not interfere with the impartiality of the jurors because the \evidence of guilt in the case was overwhelming”
• prosecutor's reference to African-American witness as \shucking and jiving on the stand\ and reference to African-American defendants as \boys\ did not interfere with the impartiality of the jurors because the \evidence of guilt in the case was overwhelming\
• prosecutor's reference to African-American witness as \shucking and jiving on the stand\ and reference to African-American defendants as \boys\ did not interfere with the impartiality of the jurors because the \evidence of guilt in the case was overwhelming\
• rejecting claim that prosecutor made improper appeal to racial prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).