Court Opinion

ID: 9448332
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:32:04.082941+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:23.183413
License: Public Domain

SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
While I concur in Judge CASTLE’S opinion in this case, I make an exception to that sentence which holds that defendant has no constitutional or statutory right that “ignorance” be represented in the jury box. I do not find that defendant has made any contention for “ignorance” in the jury box. He has directed his attack to the requirements of a literacy test, i. e., a formal eighth grade education. In this case we are concerned with an intelligence test which is measured, in part, by literacy. A lack of literacy denotes illiteracy, not ignorance. An illiterate person may be a wise person. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1861 does not disqualify as jurors persons because they are ignorant ; it disqualifies them because they are illiterate, i. e. unable to read, write, and understand the English language.