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CAMPBELL v. LOUISIANA

No. 96-1584.

523 U.S. 392 (1998)

CAMPBELL v. LOUISIANA

United States Supreme Court.

Decided April 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dmitrc I. Burnes argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Richard V. Burnes.

Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General of Louisiana, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Kathleen E. Petersen and Mary Ellen Hunley, Assistant Attorneys General, and Paul R. Baier.*

Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court with respect to Parts I, II, IV, and V, and the opinion of the Court with respect to Part III, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Scalia, J., joined, p. 403.

Justice Kennedy, delivered the opinion of the Court.

We must decide whether a white criminal defendant has standing to object to discrimination against black persons in the selection of grand jurors. Finding he has the requisite standing to raise equal protection and due process claims, we reverse and remand.

I

A grand jury in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, indicted petitioner Terry Campbell on one count of second-degree

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