Jury Discrimination

Jury Discrimination in the United States

Jury Discrimination

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled JURY DISCRIMINATIONJury discrimination was first recognized as a constitutional problem shortly after the civil war, when certain southern and border states excluded blacks from jury service. The Supreme Court had little difficulty in holding such blatant racial discrimination invalid as a denial
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Jury Discrimination

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled JURY DISCRIMINATION The problem of improper discrimination in the jury selection process was considered repeatedly by the Supreme Court throughout the 1990s. Since its decision in batson v. kentucky (1986) involving race-based jury selection in criminal cases, the Court has decided a dozen
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