25 Utah 2d 32 - State v. Leggroan’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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1. “[Tjhere is no evidence whatever that the jury was selected by anyone in order deliberately to exclude anyone. The only suggestion of disproportionate selection amounting to prejudice is the happenstance that there were only ten women on a prospective panel of 50 veniremen chosen from the assessment rolls, which certainly would not warrant reversal; and such suggestion hardly could be implied from the fact that defendant was black, because this court could almost take note of the fact that the black citizens in Salt Lake County would represent no more than two per cent of the population, give or take a point, — so few that it would not be unusual that one or more would not be selected by lot.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gabaldon