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The Supreme Court unanimously rules in the case of Hernandez v. Texas,  that the Fourteen amendment applies to all racial and ethnic groups facing discrimination. The defendant, Peter Hernandez, was a Mexican American agricultural worker that had come to Texas during and after World War II. Hernandez was convicted of killing a man in cold blood in Jackson County, Texas. His legal team, went through the records of jury selections in Jackson County, an area with a substantial Hispanic population, and found that not one of the roughly 6,000 jurors selected over the previous 25 years had a Hispanic last name. Hernandez received a new trial with a jury that included Mexican Americans and he was again found guilty of murder. More