PEOPLE v. SMITH

Docket No. 114785, Calendar No. 1.

615 N.W.2d 1 (2000)

463 Mich. 199

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Diapolis SMITH, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, William A. Forsyth, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy K. McMorrow, Chief Appellate Attorney, Grand Rapids, for the people

James Sterling Lawrence, Detroit, for the defendant.


Opinion

CORRIGAN, J.

The question presented in this case is whether Kent County's former system of selecting jurors denied defendant his Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury drawn from a fair cross section of the community. To establish a prima facie violation of the fair cross-section requirement, a defendant must show that a distinctive group was underrepresented in his venire or jury pool, and that the underrepresentation was the result of systematic...

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