Hale v. Kentucky

Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants=Hale v. Kentucky
ArgueDate=March 29
ArgueYear=1938
DecideDate=April 11
DecideYear=1938
FullName=Joe Hale v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
USVol=303
USPage=613
Citation=58 S.Ct. 753; 82 L.Ed. 1050
Prior=
Subsequent=Reversed and remanded.
Holding=The equal protection of the laws guaranteed to petitioner by the Fourteenth Amendment had been denied.
SCOTUS=1937-1938
PerCuriam=yes
NotParticipating=Cardozo
LawsApplied=

"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. cite web|url=http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/glossary.cgi?term=h&letter=yes|title=Encyclopedia|work=The History of Jim Crow|accessdate=] NAACP counsel, including Charles H. Houston, Leon A. Ransom and Thurgood Marshall, represented Hale.

Background

Joe Hale, an African American, had been convicted in McCracken County, Kentucky. No African Americans were selected as jury members within the past 50 years although nearly 7,000 were eligible for jury service.

Ruling

The court unanimously ruled that the plaintiff's civil rights had been violated.

Results

"Hale v. Kentucky" was one in a series of cases where the Supreme Court overturned convictions of blacks for reason of discrimination in jury selections in the lower courts.

ee also

*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 303
*"Norris v. Alabama" (1935)
*"Hollins v. Oklahoma" (1935)

References

Further reading

*cite journal |last=Jefferson |first=B. S. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1939 |month= |title=Race Discrimination in Jury Service |journal=Boston University Law Review |volume=19 |issue= |pages=413 |issn=00068047 |url= |accessdate= |quote=

External links

* [http://supreme.justia.com/us/303/613/ Justia.com case summary]