
Racial discrimination in jury selection - Wikipedia
The ruling arose from a decision by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens to dismiss a nearly all-white jury panel in a 2014 case involving a black defendant. When prosecutors in …
A History of Discrimination in Jury Selection
In 1952, this all-white, all-male jury convicted Walter Lee Irvin, an innocent Black man, of the kidnapping and rape of a Florida woman. Mr. Irvin and three other innocent Black men who …
Study: All-White Jury Pools Convict Black Defendants 16 Percent …
Apr 17, 2012 · Juries formed from all-white jury pools in Florida convicted black defendants 16 percent more often than white defendants, a gap that was nearly eliminated when at least one …
Can an all-white jury be fair to a black man?
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides the right to an impartial jury in criminal prosecutions, but what constitutes impartiality? The Supreme Court has held that the jury must …
All White Juries; Racism in the Courts - Truthout
Jun 30, 2010 · The U.S. Supreme Court finally barred prosecutors from blatantly biased jury selection practices in its 1986 Batson ruling. However, “illegal racial discrimination in jury …
Effects of the Racial Makeup of Juries - courses2.cit.cornell.edu
In the present research, we investigated the effects of jury racial composition (all White vs. racially mixed) on mock jury deliberations, expecting that interracial juries will trigger social anxiety, …
6 Decades Later, Acquittal Of Emmett Till's Killers Troubles Town
Sep 25, 2015 · It was 60 years ago this week that an all-white jury acquitted two white men in the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy visiting Mississippi from Chicago.
The Supreme Court Takes On the All-White Jury - The New …
Oct 30, 2015 · On Monday, the Supreme Court will face one facet of that system: juror selection. Prosecutors frequently strike black jurors—especially when the defendant is black, and …
The All White Jury by Shirley Baccus-Lobel The all-male, all-white jury has been on the road to extinction for a long time. More than a century before Batson v. Ken? tucky, 476 U.S. 79, was …
Jury in the Ahmaud Arbery case is 11 white people and 1 Black man - NPR
Nov 5, 2021 · After summonses went out to 1,000 people and attorneys questioned potential jurors for more than two weeks, a panel has finally been selected in the trial of the three men …