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Powers v. Ohio
499 U. S. 400
Key Principle
Under the Equal Protection Clause a criminal defendant has third-party standing to object to the prosecution's race-based use of peremptory challenges against prospective jurors, whether or not the defendant and the excluded jurors share the same race.
Area of Law
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