Court Opinion

ID: 9679273
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:45:53.03582+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:11.627293
License: Public Domain

RENTTO, Presiding Judge
(concurring specially).
I concur in the opinion, but do not subscribe to the rule of law announced in the quotation therein, cited with approval, from Cassell v. Texas, 339 U.S. 282, 70 S.Ct. 629, 94 L.Ed. 839. As I read it our jury selectors would have to become personally acquainted with all the eligible jurors in their respective districts. This I think would place an unrealistic burden on them in our larger cities. While the court held that there was illegal racial discrimination in the selection of the grand jury involved in the Cassell case, only four and thus not a majority of the eight participating judges concurred in the quoted rule.
BIEGELMEIER, J., joins in this concurrence.