Powers v. Ohio, No. 89-5011 (U.S. Supreme Court) (499 U.S. 400; 111 S.Ct. 1364) (April 1, 1991) (Justice Kennedy)
In this case the Supreme Court held that a defendant of any race can raise an equal protection challenge to the prosecution's discriminatory use of peremptory challenges, thereby eliminating any need for a criminal defendant raising such an equal protection challenge to show commonality of race with the excluded jurors. ...
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