Hale v. Kentucky

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Hale v. Kentucky

Argued March 29, 1938
Decided April 11, 1938
Full case name Joe Hale v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
Citations 303 U.S. 613 (more)
58 S.Ct. 753; 82 L.Ed. 1050
Subsequent history Reversed and remanded.
Holding
The equal protection of the laws guaranteed to petitioner by the Fourteenth Amendment had been denied.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Charles E. Hughes
Case opinions
Per curiam.
Cardozo took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Hale v. Kentucky, 303 U.S. 613 (1938), was a United States Supreme Court case relating to racial discrimination in the selection of juries for criminal trials. The case overturned the conviction of an African American man accused of murder because the lower court of Kentucky had systematically excluded African Americans from serving on the jury in the case.[1] NAACP counsel, including Charles H. Houston, Leon A. Ransom and Thurgood Marshall, represented Hale.[1]

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.[1]

Ruling

The court unanimously ruled that the plaintiff's civil rights had been violated.[1]

Results

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.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Encyclopedia". The History of Jim Crow. 

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.

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United States equal protection and criminal procedure case law
 
Discrimination in jury selection
History
Racial exclusion in venire
  • Strauder v. West Virginia (1880)
  • Virginia v. Rives (1880)
  • Neal v. Delaware (1881)
  • Gibson v. Mississippi (1896)
  • Smith v. Mississippi (1896)
  • Carter v. Texas (1900)
  • Tarrance v. Florida (1903)
  • Brownfield v. South Carolina (1903)
  • Rogers v. Alabama (1904)
  • Franklin v. South Carolina (1910)
  • Norris v. Alabama (1935)
  • Patterson v. Alabama (1935)
  • Hale v. Kentucky (1938)
  • Smith v. Texas (1940)
Fair cross-section in venire
  • *Glasser interpreted the Impartial Jury Clause of the Sixth Amendment. **Thiel was a civil case.
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