Patterson v. Alabama

Patterson v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 15–18, 1935 Decided April 1, 1935
Full case name	Patterson v. Alabama
Citations	294 U.S. 600 (more) 55 S. Ct. 575; 79 L. Ed. 1082
Case history
Prior	Patterson v. State, 229 Ala. 270, 156 So. 567 (1934); cert. granted, 293 U.S. 554 (1935).
Holding
An African-American defendant is denied due process rights if the jury pool excludes African Americans.
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland Pierce Butler · Harlan F. Stone Owen Roberts · Benjamin N. Cardozo
Case opinion
Majority	Hughes, joined by Van Devanter, Brandeis, Sutherland, Butler, Stone, Roberts, Cardozo
McReynolds took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV

Patterson v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 600 (1935), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that an African-American defendant is denied due process rights if the jury pool excludes African-Americans.