D. Single Persons. The jury pool seriously underrepresents single people. These disparities are clearly significant. Parents are more likely to be horrified by this kind of crime. Single people are generally less attached to the community, and are therefore less protective of what they may view as a threat to the community in which they live.
Single people are also generally less conservative than married people.
In this parish, single people constitute a valid class for purposes of a jury composition challenge. Transients, people who have moved into the county within the last five years, are also a cognizable social group. These statistics indicate that at least these different cognizable social groups are significantly underrepresented in the jury pool from which the jury will be selected. The first step is to establish that the group is one that is a recognizable, distinct class, . . . Next, the degree of underrepresentation must be proved, by comparing the proportion of the group in the total population to the proportion called to serve as . . .