Taylor v. Louisiana, No. 73-5744 (U.S. Supreme Court) (419 U.S. 522; 95 S.Ct. 692) (January 21, 1975) (Justice White)
In this case, the Supreme Court held that systematic exclusion of women during the jury-selection process, resulting in jury pools not "reasonably representative" of the community, denies a criminal defendant his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a petit jury selected from a fair cross section of the ...
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