Supreme Court of California

Where defendant's expert can only speculate as to the cause of minority underrepresentation in the jury pool, and the jury commissioner's procedures are facially race neutral, defendant has not shown systematic exlcusion on the basis of race.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2001
• Published 05/14/2001

Judges

•  BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Alister McAlister, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Wilton, for Defendant and Appellant., Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Laura Whitcomb Halgren and Nancy L. Palmieri, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.