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"I do not select overweight people on the jury panel for reasons that, based on my reading and past experience, that heavy-set people tend to be very sympathetic toward any defendant."

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"I do not select overweight people on the jury panel for reasons that, based on my reading and past experience, that heavy-set people tend to be very sympathetic toward any defendant." Whether that explanation from a prosecutor -- concerning why the only African-American juror was stricken from a state court jury pool -- was sufficiently race-neutral is the issue that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit confronts in an opinion issued today.

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 09, 2009 (boomark / email).

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