The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that trial judges can exclude potential jurors from capital cases based on their beliefs about the death penalty. The New York Times reports this could exclude large swaths of the population, mainly minorities and women, from serving on these juries. The Court has just approved a kind of discrimination.
Watch for wrongful conviction rates to sky-rocket.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
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