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35 St. Mary's L.J. 303 (2003-2004)
Aboilishing the Texas Jury Shuffle

handle is hein.journals/stmlj35 and id is 313 raw text is: ABOLISHING THE TEXAS JURY SHUFFLE MICHAEL M. GALLAGHER* I. Introduction ........................................... 304 II. The Jury Shuffle Procedure ........................... 308 III. Why the Texas Legislature Should Abolish the Jury Shuffl e ................................................. 312 A. The Jury Shuffle Enables Discrimination in Jury Selection ........................................... 312 B. Randomness Exists in Jury Selection Without the Jury Shuffl e ........................................ 319 C. The Jury Shuffle Ensures Neither Randomness nor Fairness in Jury Selection ..................... 322 1. R andom ness ................................... 322 2. Fairness ........................................ 324 IV. Why the Jury Shuffle Should Continue-And a R ep ly .................................................. 325 A. Applying Batson to the Jury Shuffle Would Reform the Jury Shuffle ........................... 325 1. Batson Does Not and Should Not Apply to the Jury Shuffle ............................... 325 a. Different Functions ....................... 326 b. Different Results .......................... 327 c. Different Remedies ....................... 327 2. Even if Batson Applied to the Jury Shuffle, a Jury Shuffle Request Would Always Survive a Batson Challenge .............................. 328 * Law Clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Schell, District Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, 2003-2004. B.A., 2000, Georgetown University; J.D., 2003, University of Houston Law Center. Many thanks to Mike Murray, Kathy Stephens, and the editors of the St. Mary's Law Journal for their excellent, thorough work on this Article. I am indebted to Robert Dubose for wise, gracious advice and invaluable teaching.

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