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https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/jury-selection-nears-end-trial-ahmaud-arberys-death-80950196
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One Black juror, 11 whites to hear trial over Arbery slaying (Original Post)
USAFRetired_Liberal
Nov 2021
OP
Nearly all-White jury picked for trial in Ahmaud Arbery's killing, over prosecution's protests
LetMyPeopleVote
Nov 2021
#2
"It was pure chance! I flipped the nickle myself!" says County Voter Registrar Roberta E Leigh.
marble falls
Nov 2021
#6
sheshe2
(83,788 posts)1. That sounds reasonable.
Fair and impartial.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,303 posts)2. Nearly all-White jury picked for trial in Ahmaud Arbery's killing, over prosecution's protests
This is an outrage
Link to tweet
An overwhelmingly White jury will weigh murder charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery after the defense struck 11 out of 12 Black people from the final pool for a nationally watched case in which race looms large.
Prosecutors alleged racial discrimination Wednesday in jury selection, formally challenging eight of the defense picks. But the judge rejected the prosecutors argument, saying the defense gave sufficient reasons other than race for their choices.
Black people made up a quarter of the finalist jurors; the jury ultimately included one Black man and 11 White people.....
When a strike is challenged as racially motivated, however, lawyers must give a race-neutral justification for their choice.
Those reasons are pretty easy to find, said Ashleigh Merchant, a Georgia attorney who has been following the case and knows lawyers on both sides.
Prosecutors alleged racial discrimination Wednesday in jury selection, formally challenging eight of the defense picks. But the judge rejected the prosecutors argument, saying the defense gave sufficient reasons other than race for their choices.
Black people made up a quarter of the finalist jurors; the jury ultimately included one Black man and 11 White people.....
When a strike is challenged as racially motivated, however, lawyers must give a race-neutral justification for their choice.
Those reasons are pretty easy to find, said Ashleigh Merchant, a Georgia attorney who has been following the case and knows lawyers on both sides.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)3. This spells disaster
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)4. Accountability, American Style
It was Cold Blooded Premeditated Fucking MURDER.
I pray for the proper result.
malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)5. Jim Crow
is alive and well in Georgia.
marble falls
(57,102 posts)6. "It was pure chance! I flipped the nickle myself!" says County Voter Registrar Roberta E Leigh.
TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts)7. It's the sequel to 12 Angry Men, this time 11 Angry Men.
.
.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)8. Let me guess...
the foreman's name will be Nathan Bedford something.
Lunabell
(6,087 posts)9. Oh.
This is not ok. It does not represent the population.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)10. Curtis Flowers jurors