United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant must present evidence regarding the percentage of African-Americans in the community, or at least the composition of other venires drawn from the district, in order to prove a claim that their under-representation on the jury venire violated due process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2001
• Published 08/30/2001

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and LITTLE , District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James B. Tucker, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Harold Hendricks Brittain and Richard Terrell Starrett, Asst. U.S. Attys., Jackson, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Jeffery P. Reynolds (argued), Jackson, MS, for Defendant-Appellant.