Court Opinion

ID: 9474414
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:56:35.807858+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:04.070694
License: Public Domain

BOWNES, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
Although I disagree with Chief Judge Campbell’s interpretation of Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co., 328 U.S. 217, 66 S.Ct. 984, 90 L.Ed. 1181 (1946), and Duren v. Missouri, 439 U.S. 357, 99 S.Ct. 664, 58 L.Ed.2d 579 (1979), and would hold that Thiel requires a finding that Blue Collar workers are a cognizable group, I feel that until the Supreme Court has spoken further in this area that I am bound by the en banc opinion in Barber v. Ponte which was decided on September 18, 1985. I will not repeat the arguments I made in my dissent in Barber. There is, however, one point that must be reiterated. I simply do not understand why it should make any difference whether an identifiable community group is purposely excluded from the jury rolls or is excluded because of an inadequate jury selection process. The constitutional requirement that the jury represent a fair cross-section of the community has been violated, whether it be by accident or design. See Alexander v. Louisiana, 405 U.S. 625, 632, 92 S.Ct. 1221, 1226, 31 L.Ed.2d 536 (1972.).