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Rivera v. Illinois

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Cornell Law prof Sherry Colb's latest FindLaw commentary is, "The U.S. Supreme Grants Review in Rivera v. Illinois: Reconciling Peremptory Challenges, Racial Discrimination and Harmless Error."  The ScotusWiki page for Rivera v. Illinois is here.  The introduction is here:In October, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in Rivera v. Illinois, to address the following question: If a trial judge erroneously denies a criminal defendant a peremptory challenge, believing that the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause requires that denial, must the defendant's resulting conviction be automatically reversed or, alternatively, is this mistake subject to "harmless error" analysis? (Peremptory challenges allow parties to strike prospective jurors prior to trial without giving any reason for doing so...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).