Ballew v. Georgia

Ballew v. Georgia, 435 U.S. 223 (1978), was a case heard by the United States Supreme Court that held that a Georgia state statute authorizing criminal conviction upon the unanimous vote of a jury of five was unconstitutional. The constitutional minimum size for a jury hearing petty criminal offenses was held to be six.^[1]

Ballew v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 1, 1977 Decided March 21, 1978
Full case name	Claude D. Ballew v. State of Georgia
Citations	435 U.S. 223 (more) 98 S. Ct. 1029; 55 L. Ed. 2d 234; 3 Media L. Rep. 1979
Holding
A criminal conviction based on a five person jury is unconstitutional, the minimum size for a jury hearing a petty offense is six.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Plurality	Blackmun, joined by Stevens
Concurrence	Stevens
Concurrence	White (in judgment)
Concurrence	Powell (in judgment), joined by Burger, Rehnquist
Concur/dissent	Brennan (in judgment), joined by Stewart, Marshall
Laws applied
United States Constitution, Amendment VI

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 435