· 12/23/1981
United States v. Jacques Blouin
Citations
- 666 F.2d 796
- 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 14930
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- no impairment of right where party simply shows that under a different jury selection procedure, he could have made more effective use of peremptories
- “[T]rial courts retain a broad discretion to determine the way peremptory challenges will be exercised.”
- one advantage of the box system, in either version, over the so-called “struck jury” system, is that the box system may decrease a party’s opportunity to shape a jury along racial or other class lines
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Judges: Newman, Kearse, Daly
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