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Jury selection, by its nature, forces attorneys to assume things about jurors based on incomplete information.

In February, the Colorado Supreme Court held a lengthy public hearing on a proposed rule change that would make it more difficult to remove jurors of color from criminal trials for reasons that, while not explicitly racial, may still correlate with their race.

Darrell Brooks, the man accused of driving an SUV through the Waukesha Christmas parade, will be defending himself in front of an all-white jury. Brooks is African American.

The peremptory striking of a Black juror by a prosecutor who couldn’t provide the trial court with an acceptable race-neutral reason for the dismissal constituted a substantive violation of the defendant’s constitutional right to equal protection, a divided North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. In the high court’s Feb. 11 order, Justice Robin Hudson wrote ...

In 1985, James Batson, still smarting from a failed appeal in the Kentucky Supreme Court bidding to overturn burglary and stolen goods convictions, brought his case to the United States

In 1985, James Batson, still smarting from a failed appeal in the Kentucky Supreme Court bidding to overturn burglary and stolen goods convictions, brought his case to the United States

Are in this climate right now. >> is that -- intentional discrimination, is that routine for many trials? ive never heard of such a thing. >> well, what happens is -- and this can happen in any case. either side can say whats called a batson challenge. its an abbreviation for a supreme court case. what its saying is the other party, in this case, the defense, is trying to exclude a juror based on race, and yo cannot do that under the supreme court, which is the law everywhere. so the way the bat...

Even the judge acknowledged that the defense appeared to be discriminatory in its selection but the trial will proceed as it is. joey jackson joins us. im sure youve taken part in jury selection before. as this works, as i understand its, the prosecution and defense has a certain number of objections, some unexplained, that they could use. how could a final result end up so skewed and by the way not reflecting the percentages of the local population? >> its problematic. good morning to you. list...

Fourteen total jurors will need to be chosen, while a third-degree murder charge continues to loom over the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Peremptory challenges, to the point where the judge granted a batson challenge and receded two of those white women. that was when this case was over. there was race from the beginning in those prosecutors minds. and instead of dealing with that, they ran away from it. and ill go back to the other o conundrum about this case. if george zimmerman was anybody but a cop, he would have been arrested that night. thats something that every young black male in america knows, and thats something that ev...