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"Prosecutors disciplined in jury flap," is Brian Roger's report in last Friday's Houston Chronicle.Saying they were negligent and incompetent when they struck seven blacks from the jury pool in a recent murder trial, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos castigated two of her prosecutors Thursday, docking their pay and removing them from trial work. ?I assume full responsibility for the incompetence of these two prosecutors,? Lykos said. ?There is not invidious racism involved here, but negligence or incompetence, if you will. If I thought for a moment that there were racial motives, they would have been fired.? ?We didn?t make any decisions based on race,? Assistant District Attorney Rifian Newaz said. ?I?ve never made any decisions based on race...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).

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