Tag: Jury Selection
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Colorado Supreme Court accepts 3 cases, including on racial bias in jury selection
The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday it will decide whether a person’s belief that racial bias exists in policing is an acceptable reason to remove them from a jury, or whether doing so violates the longstanding prohibition against race discrimination in jury selection. At least three of the court’s seven members must consent to hear a…
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Colorado court finds no racial discrimination in Jeffco prosecutors’ jury selection
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Jefferson County judge correctly found no racial discrimination was behind prosecutors’ dismissal of two apparently Hispanic jurors, the state’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday, even though some of the prosecution’s reasons did not match with reality and the judge seemed largely concerned about the…
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Court finds no discrimination after prosecutor dismissed all Hispanic jurors in trial
The Denver-based federal appeals court concluded on Monday that a prosecutor who dismissed all the Hispanic members of a jury pool did not violate the longstanding prohibition against intentional racial discrimination in jury selection. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit declined to grant a new trial for Jack…
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Colorado’s jury selection process: Does ‘implicit’ bias create injustice?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In 1985, James Batson, still smarting from a failed appeal in the Kentucky Supreme Court bidding to overturn burglary and stolen goods convictions, brought his case to the United States Supreme Court. He alleged that his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights had been violated by…