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Had purposely struck african-americans simply based on the color of their skin. the defense said no, they eliminated people because they felt they could not be impartial. they argued back and forth for two hours, sometimes emotionally, and then the judge came in with basically his decision. here's what the judge said. >> this court has found there appears to be intentional discrimination in the panel. quite a few african-american jurors were excused through pre-emptry strikes exercised by the defense, but that doesn't mean that the court has the authority to reseat -- >> reporter: so there you...

Here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: there are people watching this tonight who say this is another example of what happens in south georgia. of the 12 jurors seated in this racially sensitive case, only one of them is african-american. and this is a county where nearly a third of the residents are black. the judge in this case blamed racism. >> this court has found that there appears to be intentional discrimination in the panel. but that doesn't mean that the court has the authority to reseat. >> reporter: there aren't many people who live down here, about 85,000 in the whole county, an...

Rates as they are. this was a very close call. you know, we have got obviously much higher inflation than we would want to see. we want inflation to be at target. the causes of it are... quite a few of them are global, quite a few of them are to do with bottlenecks in the world economy affecting us. which actually raising interest rates won't directly solve. i mean, that's the question. but the reason i made the statement i did a few weeks ago was because we have to keep a very close watch obviously on what could be the consequences of these price pressures and what could cause this inflation ...

Manchin? because here is joe manchin just today, and he's talking about the country. and this doesn't sound like a guy who is ready to vote for paid family leave being back in the build back better bill. take a listen. >> we can't go too far left. this is not a center-left or a left country. we are a center if anything, a little center-right country that's being shown. and we ought to be able to recognize that. >> he sounds like somebody if you put together the two sound bites we've played in this segment so far as somebody who would very much like to push off the build back better bill, keep ...

Jurors, and in this case we're talking about the 11 african american jurors because of racial bias. >> defense lawyers rejected the accusations. >> we struck 13 white people to this 11 -- number of 11 african americans. and those were based on the same reasons, your honor, the same strong rooted bias. >> while the judge agreed that there was intentional discrimination, he ultimately declined to receipt the excluded jurors. >> quite a few african american jurors were excused through peremptory strikes exercised by the defense. but that doesn't mean that the court has the authority to receipt. >...