Jury selection in NJ courts may change to check for racial bias
In Elizabeth, jurors in a carjacking case shared their unease at seeing Black men in a mostly white neighborhood. The conviction of two African Americans in the trial was later overturned. In Camden, a juror cited a Hindu doctor's refusal to put his hand on the Bible while being sworn in for a sexual harassment case. And in Paterson, an assistant prosecutor dismissed three African Americans from the jury pool in a notorious murder trial, questioning whether they would be impartial. Two of the potential jurors were struck for a hairstyle that supposedly indicated "a more permissible att...
Source: burlingtoncountytimes.com