Supreme Court Throws Out Death Sentence From All-White Jury
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court ruled decisively in favor of a death-row inmate in Georgia on Monday, chastising state prosecutors for improperly keeping African-Americans off the jury that convicted him of killing a white woman.
The justices ruled 7-1 in favor of death row inmate Timothy Tyrone Foster in underscoring the importance of rules they laid out in 1986 to prevent racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court that Georgia "prosecutors were motivated in substantial part by race" when they struck African-Americans from the jury pool.
But the court did nothing to limit peremptory strikes, lawyers' ability to reject potential jurors without offering any reason. The late Thurgood Marshall once said that racial discrimination would persist in jury selection unless peremptory strikes were curtailed.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/23/us/politics/ap-us-supreme-court-all-white-jury.html
Wouldn't you know the dissenter is Thomas
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)That explains most right-wingers.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)I'm disappointed in Joe Biden's role in his confirmation.
Skittles
(153,298 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)scroll down...and dern, I'm right!...er, he's right, I'm correct!
3catwoman3
(24,109 posts)...good old Clarence before I even got to the bottom of your post.
Democat
(11,617 posts)Sad that some Democrats voted to approve a right winger like him on the highest court in America.
samsingh
(17,604 posts)samsingh
(17,604 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)is the standard throughout the south. Maybe this will send a message... nah, who am I kidding.
lark
(23,191 posts)The court sure is better without his presence.
rurallib
(62,478 posts)in Alito and Roberts. so to reinforce what you said:
The court sure is better without his presence
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)For the one dissenting justice on this opinion. Please see what Brock did to Anita Hill during Thomas's confirmation hearing.
Good thing he is working on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
ETA: I know that he mostly did his character assassination after Thomas was appointed, but he was part of the right wing push to discredit her.
rladdi
(581 posts)happyslug
(14,779 posts)Last edited Mon May 23, 2016, 03:46 PM - Edit history (1)
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-8349_6k47.pdfPlease note this case was tried 30 years ago and the Defendant has been in and out of court ever since (while always staying in Jail on Death Row). The Defendant is a mentally Retarded Defendant whose case has been heard by the US Supreme Court before, but on the issue of IQ not racial discrimination..