Racial discrimination in jury selection is specifically prohibited by law in many jurisdictions throughout the world. In the United States, it has been...

trial back to the Mississippi Supreme Court for review of racial discrimination in jury selection. The following year the state court confirmed the original...

Jury selection in the United States is the choosing of members of grand juries and petit juries for the purpose of conducting trial by jury in the United...

vehemently to a brief he filed arguing that there was racial discrimination in jury selection for the trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of...

practiced 'intentional racial discrimination' in jury selection." On September 19, 1988, Judge Robert E. Lee Key, Jr., overruled the jury's recommendation of...

Court had reversed state criminal convictions only for racial discrimination in jury selection — a practice that violated the Equal Protection Clause...

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The right of peremptory challenge is a legal right in jury selection for the attorneys to reject a certain number of potential jurors or judges without...

(1988). The Supreme Court ruled in favor of his clients in each case, finding racial discrimination in jury selection in the cases of Foster, Snyder and...

perverted. In Batson the court ruled that the defendant could make a prima facie case for purposeful racial discrimination in jury selection by relying...

14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison. Montgomery, Ala.: Equal Justice Initiative, 2010. ———. Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy...

if a hidden cause), the Supreme Court majority did not find racial bias or discrimination. The majority sought to distinguish between a disparate effect...

long line of cases where the court held that racial discrimination was impermissible in jury selection before a criminal trial. He then pointed out that...

another or the belief in racial supremacy, colorism deals with in-group discrimination in addition to between-group discrimination. Research has uncovered...

racial discrimination in jury selection, the legislature drafted two versions of § 745 contingent on whether AB 3070 became law. Because AB 3070 did in fact...

seminal Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case barring racial discrimination in jury selection. The area also had a problem with police corruption, according...

trial juries. Carnes' supporters responded that as a prosecutor, Carnes had engaged in a campaign to eliminate racial discrimination in jury selection even...

against the Jury Selection Act of 1968, a civil rights measure intended to eliminate racial discrimination in jury selection.[citation needed] In 1970, Watson...

In jurisprudence, selective prosecution is a procedural defense in which defendants argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the...

tradition in the use of juries as instruments of public justice that the jury be a body truly representative of the community." To exclude racial groups...

basis. In 1978, Hillery filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court, which granted the writ, citing grand jury discrimination. The Court...

support in Jackson County, Alabama. During jury selection, challenges intentionally targeted male potential jurors resulting in an all-female jury. The majority...

case is its direct effect on how racial discrimination is viewed constitutionally. Prior to this judgment, all-white juries were commonplace and not considered...

landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States about racial discrimination and United States constitutional criminal procedure. Strauder was...

racial discrimination was largely banned, by the mid-20th century, and over time, coming to be perceived as socially and morally unacceptable. Racial...

The ostrich instruction is a jury instruction that the requirement of knowledge to establish a guilty mind (mens rea), is satisfied by deliberate ignorance...

Court was changing the existing law in allowing coerced confessions and racial discrimination in jury selection to be challenged on habeas notwithstanding...

reopened pursuant to court order in 1964. Tucker also continued to fight against racial discrimination in jury selection. In 1966, the NAACP Legal Defense...

overturned. In June 2005, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 to overturn Miller-El's death sentence, finding his jury selection process had been tainted by racial bias...

distinct from other cases involving racial discrimination in jury selection and that male-female disproportions on jury lists carried no constitutional significance...