University of Baltimore Law Forum
Abstract
The Supreme Court in Duran u. Missouri, 99 S.Ct. 664 (1979) overturned a Missouri defendant's first degree murder conviction in holding that a "systematic exclusion of women [which] results in jury venires averaging less than 15% females violates the Constitution's fair cross-section requirement." 99 S.Ct. at 666. The decision, delivered by Justice White, represents a further progression in the Whitus to Castendal line of cases establishing and defining the meaning of a fair trial under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Recommended Citation
Earp, J. Michael
(1979)
"air Representation vs. Systematic Exclusion,"
University of Baltimore Law Forum: Vol. 9:
No.
2, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/lf/vol9/iss2/9