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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Supreme Court takes up systematic bias against black jurors.
 
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Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

WorldsStrongestNerd posted:

It seems like one of two things are going on
1. Prosecutors are deliberately axing black jurors because of racism on thier part in a broken jury selection process.

2. Prosecutors have good reasons to ax black jurors because black jurors are more likely to have a criminal record, or know the defendant, or be poorly educated, or any of several other reasons. These realities are the result of racism in the rest of society, not a broken juror selection process or racist prosecutors.

This distinction has been raised multiple times so far and I'd just like to make sure everyone understands BOTH these statements can be true. They are not contradictory. An argument that systemic biases disproportionately exclude African-Americans from juries is not an argument that peremptory strikes are not used to disproportionately strike black jurors.

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