Hale v. Kentucky
| Hale v. Kentucky | |
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| Holding | |
| The equal protection of the laws guaranteed to petitioner by the Fourteenth Amendment had been denied. | |
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| Case opinion | |
| Per curiam | |
| Cardozo took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
Hale v. Kentucky, 303 U.S. 613 (1938), was a
Background
Joe Hale, an African American, had been convicted in McCracken County, Kentucky. No African Americans were selected as jury members within the previous 50 years although nearly 7,000 were eligible for jury service.[2]
Opinion of the Court
The court unanimously ruled that the plaintiff's civil rights had been violated.[2]
Impact
Hale v. Kentucky was one in a series of cases where the Supreme Court overturned convictions of blacks for reason of discrimination in jury selections in the lower courts.[2]
See also
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 303
- Norris v. Alabama (1935)
- Hollins v. Oklahoma (1935)
- NAACP in Kentucky
References
Further reading
- Jefferson, B. S. (1939). "Race Discrimination in Jury Service". Boston University Law Review. 19: 413. ISSN 0006-8047.
- See a picture of the NAACP Legal Team 1933 including Ransom, professor at the Howard Law School, at "A Century of Racial Segregation, 1849-1950" in the Library of Congress exhibition, "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty. Accessed December 29, 2010. www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-segregation.html.
External links
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