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Supreme Court overturns Louisiana death sentence in race-based jury challenge case

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] ruled Wednesday that a Louisiana death sentence should be overturned because the trial judge "committed clear error" in ruling on the defendant's objection to a prosecution peremptory jury challenge, which the defendant argued was based on race. The ruling came in Snyder v. Louisiana [LII case backgrounder; JURIST report],

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