MASSACHUSETTS

v.

SOARES ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (29 total)

• State v. Neil, 457 So. 2d 481 (Fla. 1984)
  …202, 85 S.Ct. 824, 13 L.Ed.2d 759 (1965). The court refused to adopt an alternate test derived from People v. Wheeler, 22 Cal.3d 258, 583 P. 2d 748, 148 Cal.Rptr. 890 (1978), and Commonwealth v. Soares, 377 Mass. 461, 387 N.E. 2d 499, cert. denied, 444 U.S. 881, 100 S.Ct. 170, 62 L.Ed.2d 110 (1979), finding Neil’s argument in favor of those cases not to be compelling. Recognizing that this issue is troublesome and capable of repetition, however, the district court certified its question to this Court. In…
• State v. Slappy, 522 So. 2d 18 (Fla. 1988)
  …n though the final jury panel apparently contained one black. See David, 803 F. 2d at 1571; Fleming. Accord United States v. McDaniels, 379 F.Supp. 1243, 1244 (E.D. La.1974); Commonwealth v. Soares, 377 Mass. 461, 473, 387 N.E. 2d 499, cert. denied, 444 U.S. 881, 100 S.Ct. 170, 62 L.Ed. 2d 110 (1979); People v. Seals, 153 Ill.App.3d 417, 106 Ill.Dec. 316, 320, 505 N.E. 2d 1107, 1111 (Ill.App.1987). This result is consistent with Neil, where we found error even though a black served as an alternate juror. 45…

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• Kibler v. State, 546 So. 2d 710 (Fla. 1989)
  …ssachusetts reached a similar conclusion when it held that common group membership of a defendant and the challenged jurors was not a prerequisite to the assertion of a complaint. Commonwealth v. Soares, 377 Mass. 461, 387 N.E. 2d 499, cert. denied, 444 U.S. 881, 100 S.Ct. 170, 62 L.Ed.2d 110 (1979). Accord State v. Superior Court, 157 Ariz. 541, 760 P. 2d 541 (Ariz.1988); Seubert v. State, 749 S.W. 2d 585 (Tex.Ct.App.1988). Although Peters v. Kiff involved the exclusion of a discrete racial group during th…