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Race and Juries in the South

By Steve Hall

Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative has released a report, Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy.It's the subject of a New York Times article, "Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries," written by Shaila Dewan.  Here's the beginning: In late April in a courthouse in Madison County, Ala., a prosecutor was asked to explain why he had struck 11 of 14 black potential jurors in a capital murder case. The district attorney, Robert Broussard, said one had seemed ?arrogant? and ?pretty vocal.? In another woman, he said he ?detected hostility.? Mr. Broussard also questioned the ?sophistication? of a former Army sergeant, a forklift operator with three years of college, a cafeteria manager, an assembly-line worker and a retired Department of Defense program analyst...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).