Teague v. Lane

Teague (defendant), an African American man, was convicted by an all-white jury after the prosecution used all its peremptory strikes to remove Black jurors, and he argued this denied him a jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the community. After losing on direct appeal in state court, Teague sought federal habeas relief, arguing for a new rule extending the Sixth Amendment's fair-cross-section requirement to the actual trial jury rather than just the jury pool from which it is drawn.