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Mu'MIn Vs. Virginia

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 30, 1991

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  1. Ristaino Vs. Ross US Supreme Court · Mar 03, 1976
  2. Patton Vs. Yount US Supreme Court · Jun 26, 1984
  3. Rideau Vs. Louisiana US Supreme Court · Jun 03, 1963
  4. Sheppard Vs. Maxwell US Supreme Court · Jun 06, 1966
  5. Murphy Vs. Florida US Supreme Court · Jun 16, 1975
  6. Patterson Vs. Colorado US Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1907
  7. Turner Vs. Murray US Supreme Court · Apr 30, 1986
  8. U.S. 415 (1991) U.S. Supreme Court Mu'Min v. Virginia
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  9. U.S. 415 (1991) Mu'Min v. Virginia
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  10. of possible juror racial bias, Aldridge v. United
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  11. publicity a constitutional requirement, since peremptory challenges are not required by the Constitution. Ross v. Oklahoma
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  12. compelled only if the trial court's failure to ask them renders the defendant's trial fundamentally unfair. See Murphy v. Florida
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  13. done so on constitutional grounds. Pp. 500 U. S. 424 -427. (c) Mu'Min misplaces his reliance on Irvin v. Dowd
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  14. such a presumption of prejudice that the jurors' claims that they can be impartial should not be believed, Patton v. Yount
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  15. that were tried in federal courts, and are therefore subject to this Court's supervisory power, see Rosales-Lopez v. United
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  16. Aldridge v. United
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  17. and Connors v. United
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  18. with respect to which our authority is limited to enforcing the commands of the United States Constitution. See Turner v. Murray
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  19. and Ham v. South
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  20. U.S. at 158 U. S. 413 . In Aldridge v. United
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  21. Id. at 283 U. S. 311 . More recently, in Rosales-Lopez v. United
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  22. with the extent of voir dire examination have dealt with trials in state courts. The first of these was Ham v. South
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  23. Id. at 409 U. S. 528 . In Ristaino v. Ross
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  24. jurors as to racial prejudice in every case where the races of the defendant and the victim differ, but in Turner v. Murray
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  25. challenges. But since peremptory Page 500 U. S. 425 challenges are not required by the Constitution, Ross v. Oklahoma
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  26. to ask these Page 500 U. S. 426 questions must render the defendant's trial fundamentally unfair. See Murphy v. Florida
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  27. s position. Among the state court decisions cited to us by the parties, not only Virginia, but South Carolina, State v. Lucas
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  28. S.C. 37, 39-40, cert. denied, 472 U.S. 1012 (1985), Massachusetts, Commonwealth v. Burden
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  29. Mass.App. 666, 674, 448 N.E.2d 387, 393 (1983), and Pennsylvania, Commonwealth v. Dolhancryk
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  30. A.2d 246, 248 (1979), have refused to adopt such a rule. The Courts of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, United States v. Davis
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  31. F.2d 190, 196 (1978), the Seventh Circuit, United States v. Dellinger
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  32. F.2d 340, 375-376 (1972), cert. denied, 410 U.S. 970 (1973), and the Ninth Circuit, Silverthorne v. United
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  33. The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has held that it is Page 500 U. S. 427 not. United States v. Montgomery
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  34. of Appeals for the Eight and District of Columbia Circuits appear to take an intermediate position. United States v. Poludniak
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  35. F.2d 948, 956 (CA8 1981), cert. denied sub nom. Weigand v. United
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  36. United States v. Haldeman
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  37. U.S.App.D.C. 254, 288-289, 559 F.2d 31, 65-66 (1976), cert. denied sub nom. Ehrlichman v. United
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  38. detailed an inquiry to make of the members of the jury venire. Petitioner relies heavily on our opinion in Irvin v. Dowd
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  39. U. S. 1025 , 467 U. S. 1031 (1984) (quoting Irvin v. Dowd
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  40. view does not mean that it is incorporated Page 500 U. S. 431 into the Fourteenth Amendment. Cupp v. Naughten
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  41. be interrogated as to the contents of the news reports which they had read. But in the later case of United States v. Polizzi
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  42. F.2d 856 (1974), cert. denied sub nom. Emprise Corp. v. United
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  43. had been exposed to some publicity, and 19 had been excused because they had formed an opinion. And in United States v. Giese
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  44. law. See post at 500 U. S. 441 -442, 500 U. S. 444 . This claim is squarely foreclosed by Patton v. Yount
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  45. selected, the trial judge determined that their assurances of impartiality were credible. As we observed in Patton v. Yount
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  46. one paper reported that, but for this Court's decision a year earlier in Furman v. Georgia
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  47. to pretrial publicity may undermine a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to trial by an impartial jury. E.g., Irvin v. Dowd
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  48. juror must set aside any preconceptions about the case and base his verdict solely on the evidence at trial. Irvin v. Dowd
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  49. supra, 467 U.S. at 467 U. S. 1031 , quoting Irvin v. Dowd
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Mu'Min v. Virginia
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