Rivera v. Illinois, No. 07-9995 (U.S. Supreme Court) (556 U.S. 148; 129 S.Ct. 1446) (March 31, 2009) (Justice Ginsburg)
Here a unanimous Supreme Court held that the Due Process Clause does not require the automatic reversal of a murder conviction simply because of the trial court's good-faith error in denying the defendant's peremptory challenge to a juror.
In this case, a unanimous Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction of ...
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