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Legal Citation: 435 U.S. 223 (1978)

Petitioner
Claude Davis Ballew

Respondent
State of Georgia

Petitioner's Claim
That a Georgia law providing for juries of only five persons was in violation of the right to trial by jury guaranteed in the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, and that by depriving the petitioner of his rights, this law further violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Michael Clutter

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Leonard W. Rhodes

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun (writing for the Court), William J. Brennan, Jr., Warren E. Burger, Thurgood Marshall, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

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