· 4/25/1995
United States v. Billy R. Ashley, Shaunessy R. Sylvester, Craig Crofton A/K/A Craig C. Ashley, and Leroy Lambert
Citations
- 54 F.3d 311
- 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 9462
How courts have described this case
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- holding that an absolute 3% discrepancy between the 8% of voting-age African-Americans in the population and the 0% of African-Americans on the jury venire was not shown to be more than statistical coincidence
- finding an inadequate showing on the under-representation prong where the venire had no African-Americans and the relevant population had 3%
- no prima facie case of underrepresentation if disparity does not exceed 10%
- no prima facie case of underrepresentation if disparity does not exceed 10%
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Judges: Bauer, Kanne, Skinner
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