No. 19-8232
William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights
Key Terms:
DueProcess
DueProcess
Latest Conference:
2020-10-16
(distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether this Petitioner is another example of such deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from venire on the Assumption that blacks AS A qroup are unqualified to serve As jurors o it forbids the States to Stribe black veniremen on the Assumption that they will be brised in A paaticular cAse simply because the defendant is black.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Petitioner is another example of the deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from serving as jurors
Docket Entries
2020-10-19
Rehearing DENIED.
2020-09-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2020.
2020-05-29
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2020-05-26
Petition DENIED.
2020-05-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/21/2020.
2020-04-24
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2020-04-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 11, 2020)
Attorneys
Mississippi
Abbie Eason Koonce — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
William Jackson
William Lynn Jackson — Petitioner