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The issue of racial bias in jury selection has been complicated by the question of whose rights are implicated; the potential juror's, or the defendant's. [10] A Michigan Law Review article, published in 1978, asserted that young people, during that period, were under-represented on the nation's jury rolls.
The review found that a deputy district attorney in Price’s office used peremptory strikes — legal challenges that allow lawyers to remove potential jurors during jury selection — to block ...
Eliminating peremptory challenges in jury selection is needed to dismantle systemic racism in our legal system, say Miriam Krinsky, Chris Kemmitt and Adam Murphy.
Lawyers for a Black defendant challenging his 2009 death sentence argued Wednesday that North Carolina's documented history of racial discrimination and perceived implicit bias in jury selection ...
Jury selection is the selection of the people who will serve on a jury during a jury trial. The group of potential jurors (the "jury pool,” also known as the venire) is first selected from among the community using a reasonably random method. Jury lists are compiled from voter registrations and driver license or ID renewals.
Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so—may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.
The first part of the jury selection process involves assembling a pool of potential jurors. This panel, known as the venire, is randomly selected from public records, typically from lists of ...
While the state attorney general's office said in its court filing that racial bias in jury selection is "abhorrent," according to NBC affiliate WRAL in Raleigh, the office added that a "claim of ...