| Venue: | SCOTUS |
| Facts: | Mexican Americans make up 79% of the population in this county, but only 39% of the grand jury venire. |
| Posture: | District court finds that there was a showing of discrimination, just based on raw numbers, but held that the state's showing that Mexican Americans constituted the governing majority weighs against any inference of invidiosity. Dismissed. |
| Issue: | Is this discrimination? |
| Holding: | Yes |
| Rule: | None really stated |
| Reasoning: | Essentially, if a population does this to itself, it's hard to muster much sympathy. But, at the same time, in order to find that the presumption of discrimination was rebutted, we'd have to rely on the reasoning that human beings would not discriminate against their own kind, and that's reasoning we have rejected. |
| Dicta: | Powell, dissenting: practically everybody here, including the jury commissioners, was Mexican American. If they want this discrimination to end, they're in the majority-- it's no problem to effect that change. |