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ROSE v. MITCHELL

No. 77-1701.

443 U.S. 545 (1979)

ROSE, WARDEN v. MITCHELL ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided July 2, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Leech, Jr., Attorney General of Tennessee, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Michael E. Terry, Assistant Attorney General.

Walter Kurtz argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents.*

MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.†

In this federal habeas corpus case, respondents claim they were the victims of racial discrimination, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, in the selection of the foreman of the Tennessee grand jury that indicted them for murders in the first degree. As the case comes to this Court, no issue of discrimination in the selection of the venire...

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