Sentences with phrase «black jurors as»

the Equal Protection Clause forbids the prosecutor to challenge potential jurors solely... on the assumption that black jurors as a group will be unable impartially to consider the State's case against a black defendant.

United States v. Newman, 549 F. 2d 240 (CA2 1977), the Equal Protection Clause forbids the prosecutor to challenge potential jurors solely on account of their race or on the assumption that black jurors as a group will be unable impartially to consider the State's case against a black defendant.

Not exact matches

This deeply exploitive moment is used as proof that there can be no justice for a black person in the South because it's suggested that the horrific images Jake conjures for his soapbox would be ineffectual unless the white jurors were to imagine a white victim.

Interestingly, jurors from ethnic communities, including black and Asian jurors, were also shown to align more with the defendant when compared to those who identify as white British, suggesting a greater likelihood of a not guilty verdict.

And because the case - specific use of peremptory challenges by the State does not deny blacks the right to serve as jurors in cases involving nonblack defendants, it harms neither the excluded jurors nor the remainder of the community.

Reporters noted jurors» race based on their physical appearance, using the same categories as police: white, Black, Indigenous and brown, which includes South Asian people.

Of the 632 jurors surveyed by reporters, 451 (71 per cent) were white; 45 (7 per cent) were Black; 42 (7 per cent) were brown; 89 (14 per cent) were Asian; and 5 (less than 1 per cent) were listed as other.

«I don't care who makes (the juror list) as long as it is complete and as long as it is a full and accurate representation of the community, and that all individuals — whether you are poor, rich, white, Black, homeless or a homeowner — have an equal probability of forming that list,» he says.