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Timely Decision

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That's the title of a Saturday Houston Chronicle editorial regarding the Supreme Court ruling in Snyder v. Louisiana.  LINKA7-2 decision by a coalition of conservative and liberal justices on the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction and death sentence of a Kenner, La., man. The court ruled that prosecutors improperly struck a black college student from the jury, and the trial judge refused to reinstate him. Actually, the prosecutor eliminated all five black people from a final jury pool of 36 people. He used his peremptory challenges to pick an all-white jury. In addition, the prosecutor repeatedly referred to the trial of Allen Snyder as his "O.J. Simpson case," connecting the defendant to the notorious acquittal of the former football star and actor...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).