Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Duren test

Constitutional law. A test to determine whether a jury's composition violates the fair-cross-section requirement and a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. 0 Under the test, a constitutional violation occurs if (1) in the venire from which the jury was selected, a distinctive group is not fairly and reasonably represented in relation to the group's population in the community, (2) the under representation is the result of a systematic exclusion of the group from the juryselection process, and (3) the government cannot reasonably justify the discrepancy. Duren u. Missouri, 439 U.S. 357, 99 S.Ct. 664 (1979). See FAIR-CROSS-SECTION REQUIREMENT; STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY; ABSOLUTE DISPARITY; COMPARATIVE DISPARITY.