Peters v. Kiff

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1972-06-22

Cited by 657 later decision(s) in our corpus · see the citation network in Lexace

Open in Lexace · Ask the AI about this case

From the opinion

Mr. Justice Marshall announced the judgment of the Court and an opinion in which Mr. Justice Douglas and Mr. Justice Stewart join. Petitioner alleges that Negroes were, systematically excluded from the grand jury that indicted him and the petit jury that convicted him of burglary in the Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia. In consequence he contends that his conviction is invalid under the Due Process and…

Read the full opinion (source) ↗


Lexace provides legal information, not legal advice, and no attorney–client relationship is created. Citation figures are counts of later citing opinions in our corpus and may be incomplete; always read and Shepardize the full opinion before relying on it.