Ernest Abbott v. Harold K. Mines and Thornton Bryan’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate ·

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1. “One of our functions as a Federal Appellate Court is to watch over jury selection procedures to guard against frustration of the congressional purpose behind them. * * * Excluding defined community groups from federal juries, whether this is done by jury commissioners or as in this case by the Court itself, results in injury to the jury system. The exclusion may or may not prejudice one of the parties. But that is not the question before us. We must eliminate any tendencies that undermine and weaken the institution of jury trial as it operates in federal courts. Thiel v. United States, 328 U.S. 217 , 224, 66 S.Ct. 984 [ 90 L.Ed. 1181 ] (1946). Appellant is therefore entitled to a new trial by a jury drawn from a panel that was properly constituted..”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Geelan