California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Dueñas, 242 Cal.Rptr.3d 268, 30 Cal.App.5th 1157 (Cal. App. 2019):
for procedures in criminal trials which allow no invidious discriminations between persons and different groups of persons. Both equal protection and due process emphasize the central aim of our entire judicial systemall people charged with crime must, so far as the law is concerned, stand on an equality before the bar of justice in every American court. " ( Griffin v. Illinois (1956) 351 U.S. 12, 17, 76 S.Ct. 585, 100 L.Ed. 891 ( Griffin ).)
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