JOHNSON v. COMMISSIONER

(13946), (13947),(13948), (13949), (13950), (13951), (13952), (13953), (13954), (13955), (13956), (13957), (13958), (13959), (13960), (13972), (13973), (13974), (13975), (13976), (13977), (13978), (13979), (13980), (13981), (13982), (13984), (13985), (13986), (13987), (13988).

218 Conn. 403 (1991)

ALPHONSO JOHNSON v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION RODNEY HENDERSON v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION ALAN CANADY v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION KEITH FREEMAN v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION DENNIS JACKSON v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION LINDSAY JOHNSON v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION CHRISTOPHER LEECAN v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION JOHN MANLEY, JR. v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION WILLIAM MASON v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION SHERMAN MILES v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION DARYL RUTH v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION DAVIS TYSON v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION EDDY WOOLCOCK v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION RICHARD AUSTIN v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION NAPIER TALTON v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION JONATHAN WATLEY v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION JAMES BRANTLEY v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION WILBERT HINTON v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION LUTHER FLEMING v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION ARMANDO VALERIANO v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION JOSE CASUL v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION BRUCE ROGERS v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION LEAMOND SUGGS v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION NATHANIEL CARTER v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION WILLIAM PARKER v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION REGINALD JONES v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION ANTONIO FELICIANO v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION WILLIAM DUPREE v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION ROGER HARRELL v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION CECILIO DELEON v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION FLOYD SIMMS v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released April 23, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth M. Inkster, assistant public defender, with whom was G. Douglas Nash, public defender, for the appellants (petitioners in Docket Nos. 13946 through 13960).

Charlotte G. Koskoff, with whom was Stephen Frazzini, for the appellants (petitioners in Docket Nos. 13972 through 13988).

James A. Killen, assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, was John J. Kelley, chief state's attorney, for the appellee (respondent).

SHEA, COVELLO, HULL, BORDEN and SANTANIELLO, JS.


SHEA, J.

In each of these thirty-one habeas corpus actions, the petitioner claims that his conviction is constitutionally flawed because the pool of veniremen available for selection of a petit jury for his trial and, in some instances, for selection of the grand jury that indicted him,1 was tainted by a disproportionate paucity of members of his minority group in violation of his right to equal protection of the laws, as guaranteed by...

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