On appeal, a white public defender named David Niehaus became interested in how it could possibly be constitutional for prosecutors to so brazenly reject Black jurors from being empaneled on petit juries. Niehaus moved to have the entire jury discharged as a violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. It was Niehaus, a random public defender from Kentucky, who ended up arguing this seminal case in front of the Supreme Court. Niehaus and Batson won.
