“[Jury selection] is best based upon seat-of-the-pants instincts, which are undoubtedly crudely stereotypical and may in many cases be hopelessly mistaken.”

— William H. Rehnquist

Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) (dissenting opinion).
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Chief Justice of the United States 1924–2005

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