True Crime · Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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AI illustrationTwo jurors struck from a trial with all Black defendants—was it discrimination?
Your callDid the government's strikes of the two non-white jurors break the law?
TL;DR
- 1The jury for thirteen Black defendants included only white members after the government struck two non-white jurors.
- 2Defendants claimed the government targeted minority jurors, arguing it violated the equal protection law established in .
- 3The district court initially rejected the Batson challenge, but a higher court ordered a review of the juror strikes.
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