California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Standifer, 113 Cal.Rptr. 653, 38 Cal.App.3d 733 (Cal. App. 1974):
Jurors for the Central District of the court in Los Angeles County are selected from citizens throughout the county. (Adams v. Superior Court, 27 Cal.App.3d 719, 104 Cal.Rptr. 144 (1972).) Petitioners argue, nonetheless, that an all white jury violates their right to a fair trial and that counsel's failure to object to trial before such a jury shows incompetency. A defendant, however, has no right to have any particular ethnic class sit as a jury in his
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