Tag: Jury Selection
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‘Mental gymnastics’: Lawyers, judge dissect Colorado Supreme Court’s racial bias rule for jury selection
Lawyers from the prosecution and defense communities, along with a trial judge, attempted on Thursday to demystify a recent rule change addressing racial discrimination in criminal jury selection, with some head-scratching about what the Colorado Supreme Court had actually done. “The proposal initially was not to clarify a complicated area of law, but was an…
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Colorado Supreme Court accepts 3 cases, including on racial bias in jury selection
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday it will decide whether a person’s belief that racial bias exists in policing is an acceptable reason to remove them from a jury, or whether doing so violates the longstanding prohibition against race discrimination in jury selection. At least three of the court’s seven members must consent to hear a…
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Colorado court finds no racial discrimination in Jeffco prosecutors’ jury selection
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A Jefferson County judge correctly found no racial discrimination was behind prosecutors’ dismissal of two apparently Hispanic jurors, the state’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday, even though some of the prosecution’s reasons did not match with reality and the judge seemed largely concerned about the “long day” when justifying the women’s removal. Under longstanding U.S.…
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Court finds no discrimination after prosecutor dismissed all Hispanic jurors in trial
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The Denver-based federal appeals court concluded on Monday that a prosecutor who dismissed all the Hispanic members of a jury pool did not violate the longstanding prohibition against intentional racial discrimination in jury selection. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit declined to grant a new trial for Jack…
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Colorado’s jury selection process: Does ‘implicit’ bias create injustice?
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In 1985, James Batson, still smarting from a failed appeal in the Kentucky Supreme Court bidding to overturn burglary and stolen goods convictions, brought his case to the United States Supreme Court. He alleged that his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights had been violated by…