Walter Lee Johnson v. Steve W. Puckett

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• finding question of whether discriminatory selection of grand jury foremen had occurred over a significant period of time to be mixed question of fact and law implicating no deference to state court’s conclusion
• remanding with instructions to “issue the writ of habeas corpus unless, within a reasonable time to be designated by the district court, the State should again indict and try Johnson”
• “This court has required that testimony rebutting a prima facie case of discrimination establish the use of objective, racially neutral selection procedures.”

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