PEOPLE v. BRYANT

Docket No. 141741. Calendar No. 2.

822 N.W.2d 124 (2012)

491 Mich. 575

PEOPLE v. BRYANT.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 28, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, John J. Bursch , Solicitor General, William A. Forsyth , Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy K. McMorrow , Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Arthur James Rubiner , West Bloomfield, for defendant.

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, John J. Bursch , Solicitor General, Richard A. Bandstra , Chief Legal Counsel, and B. Eric Restuccia , Deputy Solicitor General, for the Attorney General.

Bradley R. Hall for Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan.


ZAHRA, J.

This case presents the question whether defendant was denied his Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury drawn from a fair cross section of the community. A fair-cross-section claim under the Sixth Amendment requires a defendant to make a prima facie case as set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Duren v. Missouri.1 Namely, a defendant must show:

(1) that the group alleged to be excluded is a `distinctive...

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