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ALSTON v. MANSON

Nos. 942, 943, Docket 85-2358, 85-2361.

791 F.2d 255 (1986)

Michael ALSTON, Petitioner-Appellee, v. John R. MANSON, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, Respondent-Appellant. James HASKINS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. John R. MANSON, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David N. Rosen, New Haven, Conn., for petitioner-appellee Alston.

John R. Williams, New Haven, Conn., for petitioner-appellee Haskins.

Julia DiCocco Dewey, Asst. State Atty., New Haven, Conn., for respondent-appellant.

Before KAUFMAN, TIMBERS and MINER, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Drawn from hamlet and metropolis alike, jurors daily give life to the ancient right, enshrined in the Magna Carta and the Constitution, to a trial by jury of one's peers. Although now summoned by statute instead of the medieval sheriff's writ of venire facias, a representative jury array remains the expression of the community's role in securing this fundamental right. Accordingly, both the sixth and fourteenth amendments mandate...

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