No. 19-8232

William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2020-04-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
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
Latest Conference: 2020-10-16 (distributed 2 times)
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

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED hother thc PeAroner is Another ewample of Such deprivation of dhe Equal Drotecton Clause which forbids the State's tr exclude black peréons from venice. on the assumotion thet blacks as A qreup Are, uunqual ied do Serve AS ‘jurors v% it fbids the Strtes h Strbe black veniremen on the assunphion thet they will be btased in A spaaticular) Case simply because the defendant is black . _

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 KoonceOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Abbie Eason KoonceOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
William Jackson
William Lynn Jackson — Petitioner
William Lynn Jackson — Petitioner