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351. Legal traditions

By Joel Jacobsen

In 2003, the Supreme Court sternly set its face against overtly racist policies in the Dallas DA's office.   It would no longer tolerate blatant racism in jury selection practices in 1963.   (See post 312.)   Yesterday the justices just as firmly went on record opposing the jury selection process in a single Louisiana trial in 1996.  It was a death penalty trial, and the historical southern record on death penalty trials involving Black defendants isn't entirely savory, and I don't know anything about the murder except that the New York Times reporter was most likely exhibiting his cluenessless when he reported this at face value: [Convicted murderer Allen] Snyder was hoping to reconcile with his wife, Mary, and became enraged when she went out with another man on the night of Aug...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).