MILLER-EL V. DRETKE

'''Miller-El v. Dretke''', 545 U.S. 231 (2005), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that clarified the constitutional limitations on the use of peremptory challenges by prosecutors.
Thomas Miller-El was charged with capital murder committed in the course of a robbery. After voir dire, Miller-El moved to strike the entire jury because the prosecution had used its peremptory challenges to strike ten of the eleven African-Americans who were eligbile to serve on the jury. This motion was denied, and Miller-El was subsequently found guilty and sentenced to death.
In 1986, the US Supreme Court ruled in Batson v. Kentucky that a prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges may not be used to exclude jurors on the basis of race. Miller-El appealed based on the Batson criteria and asked that his conviction be overturned.
In June 2005, the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn Miller-El's death sentence, finding his jury selection process had been tainted by racial bias.

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★ List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 545

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★ US Supreme Court opinion in ''Miller-El v. Dretke''