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Hale v. Kentucky

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Hale v. Kentucky
the Supreme Court of the United States
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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.

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United States Supreme Court

303 U.S. 613

Hale  v.  Kentucky

 Argued: March 29, 1938. --- Decided: April 11, 1938

Messrs. Charles H. Houston and Leon A. Ransom, both of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

Mr. A. E. Funk, of Frankfort, Ky., for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

PER CURIAM.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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