JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Warden of San Quentin State Prison asks this Court to retire a doctrine of equal protection jurisprudence first announced in 1880. The time has come, he urges, for us to abandon the rule requiring reversal of the conviction of any defendant indicted by a grand jury from which members of his own race were systematically excluded.
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In 1962, the grand jury of Kings County, California, indicted...
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