Swain v. Alabama, No. 64 (U.S. Supreme Court) (380 U.S. 202; 85 S.Ct. 824) (March 8, 2065) (Justice White)
In this case the Court sought to accommodate both the prosecutor's privilege of peremptorily challenging jurors and the newly promogulated constitutional prohibition against exclusion of jurors because of race. (See id., at 219-24). The Court required a defendant to present a prima facie case that the peremptory challenges were being ...
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