People v. Burgener
California Supreme Court
62 P.3d 1 (2003)
Relevant factsFree
After a retrial following a prior reversal, Burgener sought to quash his jury venire as unrepresentative of young adults, low-income adults, and African Americans, and while a jury-services manager testified her office had occasionally supplemented panels with additional African American jurors, including during Burgener's own jury selection, the trial court declined to quash the venire, and Burgener was again convicted and sentenced to death.
IssueFree
Whether, if distinctive groups in the community are systematically excluded from the jury pool, that violates a party's constitutional right to a jury from a representative cross-section of the community.