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Judge finds racial bias tainted jury selection in Black man's death row case
prosecutors chose to strike prospective Black jurors from the jury pool at more than three times the rate of prospective white jurors. Ashley Burrell, senior counsel at the Legal Defense Fund ...
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Report: Racial Discrimination Still Remains Prevalent Among Jury Selections
MONTGOMERY, AL- The Equal Justice Initiative’s report, Unreliable Verdicts: Racial Bias and Wrongful Convictions, details the ...
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Racial bias tainted jury selection and death sentence for a Black man in North Carolina, judge says
SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose ... 100% of the time while similar white defendants received a death sentence ...