ROSS v. OKLAHOMA

No. 86-5309.

487 U.S. 81 (1988)

ROSS v. OKLAHOMA

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargued April 18, 1988

Decided June 22, 1988


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Peterson reargued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Thomas G. Smith, Jr.

Robert A. Nance, Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma, reargued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Robert H. Henry, Attorney General.*


CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.

During the selection of the jury in his capital murder trial, petitioner Bobby Lynn Ross resorted to one of his peremptory challenges to remove a juror whom the trial court should have excused for cause under Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (1968). He claims that because of that fact the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments...

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