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What was the case Moore v. Dempsey about?
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The case was about a murder trial in Arkansas. The defendants were accused of murdering a white man. The jury was all white and the defendants were black. The defendants were convicted and sentenced to death. The defendants appealed their conviction and sentence. The defendants were convicted again, but the state supreme court overturned the verdicts, saying that discrimination against black jurors (the juries were all-white) was contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Because the lower court had not acted upon their cases