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 Louisville asked the Kentucky Supreme Court to review whether Judge Stevens abused his discretion in dismissing the all-white panel, Judge Stevens commented ...

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 were falsely accused of the crime became known as the “Groveland Four.”

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 member of the jury pool was black, according to a Duke University-led study.

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 be drawn from a representative cross-section of the community (Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975).

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 selection remains widespread” according to a recent report by the Equal Justice Initiative that examined practices in eight southern states.

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, self-monitoring, and in turn, diminished communication with fellow jurors (i.e., word count).

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.

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 especially when the victim...

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 decided in 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court condemned racial discrimination injury selection as an abridgement of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth ...

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 facing murder charges for...