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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Were jurors dismissed because they were Black or female? Supreme Court declines to review.

www.usatoday.com

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Were jurors dismissed because they were Black or female? Supreme Court declines to review.

www.usatoday.com

gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 10 months ago
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Most studies on jury selection show prosecutors disproportionately use their strikes to exclude Black jurors, according to an expert.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240703112150/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/07/02/supreme-court-jurors-dismissed-black/73773266007/

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    Sure. Why would someone like Clarence Thomas or Amy Coney Barrett care about such things?

    These fucking people…

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      Well, all the conservatives will remember they’re one of the good ones when it comes time to start lining more people up against the wall

      Right? Right.

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        Uncle Tom dies at the end of his book

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          If those kids could read, they’d be very confused right now

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    I thought it was common knowledge they dismissed jurors for those reasons? Women and African Americans tend to vote a certain way.

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