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In __________, a U.S. Court of Appeals held that a plan to subtract the names of white prospective jurors until the proportion of racial minorities in the pool matches the proportion in the population violated the equal protection rights of white jurors.

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Answer:

U.S. v Ovalle (1998)

Step-by-step explanation:

The answer is "U.S. v Ovalle (1998)".

In this hearing by the United Stats Court of Appeals founded and stated that people cannot be excluded in the jury to improve or increase the representativeness.

In U.S. v Ovalle case, in the year 1998, the U.S. Court of Appeals declared that to remove or cancel the names of the white possible members of the jury until the proportion of racial minorities in the pool equals with the proportion in the population will violate the equal protection rights of white jury members.

Thus the answer is U.S. v Ovalle (1998)

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