Issues
The issue before the court was not whether Taylor actually kidnapped anyone, but whether he had a fair trial because Louisiana law had a "conceded systematic impact" to eliminate female jurors from his jury:
The issue we have, therefore, is whether a jury selection system which operates to exclude from jury service an identifiable class of citizens constituting 53% of eligible jurors in the community comports with the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. —Taylor v. Louisiana.A secondary issue was whether Taylor had standing, as a man that would not be excluded from jury duty in Louisiana, to challenge the rule.
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