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New EJI report on racial discrimination in jury selection

By Douglas A. Berman

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As detailed in this new New York Times article, which is headlined "Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries," the folks at the Equal Justice Initiative have released a new report on racial discrimination in jury selection.  This EJI release about the report gets started this way: Nearly 135 years after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to eliminate racial discrimination in jury selection, people of color continue to be excluded from jury service because of their race, especially in serious criminal trials and death penalty cases.  EJI today released a new report, ?Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy,? which is the most comprehensive study of racial bias in jury selection since the United States Supreme Court tried to limit the practice in Batson v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).

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