CIUDADANOS UNIDOS DE SAN JUAN v. HIDALGO CTY., ETC.

Nos. 77-3321, 78-1394.

622 F.2d 807 (1980)

CIUDADANOS UNIDOS DE SAN JUAN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HIDALGO COUNTY GRAND JURY COMMISSIONERS et al., Defendants-Appellees. Robert CABALLERO et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dellis PRATER et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Harrington, San Juan, Tex., Bruce J. Ennis, Joel M. Gora, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Nancy M. Simonson, Ed Idar, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOLDBERG, FAY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Almost 800 years ago, the Magna Charta proclaimed, "No free man shall be . . . imprisoned . . . or in any way destroyed, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or [and] by the law of the land."1 From this seed planted in the early spring of English legal culture has grown our "very idea of a jury . . . a body of men composed of the peers or equals of the persons whose rights it is selected or summoned to determine...

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