Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries

[Pax]

Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries - NYTimes.com

In late April in a courthouse in Madison County, Ala., a prosecutor was asked to explain why he had struck 11 of 14 black potential jurors in a capital murder case.

The district attorney, Robert Broussard, said one had seemed “arrogant” and “pretty vocal.” In another woman, he said he “detected hostility.”

Mr. Broussard also questioned the “sophistication” of a former Army sergeant, a forklift operator with three years of college, a cafeteria manager, an assembly-line worker and a retired Department of Defense program analyst.

Disgusting. And they say that we live in a "post racial society". I hope the judge is removed from the bench for showing his extreme lack of judgement.

 

[dust1n]

What's neww...

 

[Mathematician]

Seems like a rather limited study if it only targets eight Southern states. Why not look for a commonality in the entire nation to ascertain whether or not it has more to do with race-poverty relations than secretory racism. Lawyers and judges are, after all, typically white men who are going to be unfamiliar with African-American vernacular and styles. It's not racist, but racialist, or pehaps even white privilege.

I'm highly skeptical of the assertion that most lawyers view black citizens as inferior.

 

[Sunstone]

My cousin, who lived in Illinois and was a defense lawyer, used to want Blacks on his juries. He figured they were more skeptical of the police and more inclined to be sympathetic to the defendents, his clients.

 

[Father Heathen]

My cousin, who lived in Illinois and was a defense lawyer, used to want Blacks on his juries. He figured they were more skeptical of the police and more inclined to be sympathetic to the defendents, his clients.

But on the flip side you might also have O.J. Simpson style outcomes.

 

[Reverend Rick]

First off, the judge has nothing to do with this.

Secondly, the defence attorney as well as the prosecutor have the right to remove potential biased jurors as they deem fit.

Jury selection has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with controlling the outcome of the trial to the best of their ability.

 

[Sunstone]

Jury selection has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with controlling the outcome of the trial to the best of their ability.

The lawyers in my family would agree with you on that one, Rick.

 

[tumbleweed41]

First off, the judge has nothing to do with this.

Secondly, the defence attorney as well as the prosecutor have the right to remove potential biased jurors as they deem fit.

Jury selection has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with controlling the outcome of the trial to the best of their ability.

:clapFrubes

 

[Hyperborean]

Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries - NYTimes.com



Disgusting. And they say that we live in a "post racial society". I hope the judge is removed from the bench for showing his extreme lack of judgement.

I've also heard about juries that don't have a single white male on them. Why aren't you getting upset over that?