Crime and Justice NewsOct 252 min readGeorgia Men Convicted For Killing Ahmaud Arbery Want New TrialJuror No. 380 had become the only Black juror in the murder trial that convicted three white men of murdering Ahmaud Arbery after...
Crime and Justice NewsAug 221 min readExclusion of Black Jurors in North Carolina Led to Disproportionate Numbers of Condemned Black Defendants, Lawyers ArgueLawyers for Hasson Jamaal Bacote, a North Carolina man on death row, argued on Wednesday that his 2009 jury selection was racially...
Crime and Justice NewsJun 211 min readCourts Examine Capital Cases for Racial Bias in County That Struck Black and Jewish JurorsOne by one, a California prosecutor eliminated five out of six Black women from the jury pool for a 2000 death-penalty case in which...
Crime and Justice NewsMar 221 min readJudge to Probe Claims of Juror Bias in Boston Marathon Bomber CaseA federal appeals on Thursday ordered the judge who oversaw the Boston Marathon bomber's trial to investigate the defense's claims of...