The Supreme Court case of JEB v.
Alabama ex rel. T.B. involved a child support dispute in which prosecutors used peremptory challenges to reject most of the men in the jury pool.
Analyze the case of JEB v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. (1994). Which of the following is the most likely reason the justices ruled as they did?
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Peremptory challenges on the basis of race were a violation of the Sixth Amendment.
Peremptory challenges on the basis of gender were a violation of the Sixth Amendment.
The attorneys used secret trial proceedings.
The attorneys used the Confrontation Clause.
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The most likely reason the justices ruled as they did in JEB v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. (1994) is that peremptory challenges on the basis of gender were a violation of the Sixth Amendment. In this case, the prosecutors used their peremptory challenges to systematically exclude male potential jurors from the jury pool. The Supreme Court held that this practice violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender. Therefore, option 2, "Peremptory challenges on the basis of gender were a violation of the Sixth Amendment," is the most likely reason for the Court's ruling in this case.
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