I'm sure it's happened before. Usually, either the defense or prosecution would make objections during jury selection and I feel like they are very cognizant of the race ratio of the jurors vs. the race of their client. But with the hundreds of thousands of trials daily across the US, many that are jury trials, it is bound to have happened, especially in densely populated black areas where the defendent is white.
Malarkey I think you're overstating how likely that is. Jury selection isn't a random snapshot of the local population that gets accepted without scrutiny. In any serious criminal case, both sides spend considerable effort evaluating jurors and raising objections where they see potential bias. That's precisely why people pay attention to the makeup of a jury in the first place.
So while an all-one-race jury for a defendant of another race is certainly possible, it's not something that can simply be brushed off with "it must happen all the time." If jury composition is considered relevant in one direction, then consistency requires acknowledging that people will notice it in the other direction as well. The real question isn't whether it has happened before, but whether the selection process produced a fair and impartial jury.
Comments
that one white girl on Wild n Out
BUnderscore Nope
I'm sure it's happened before. Usually, either the defense or prosecution would make objections during jury selection and I feel like they are very cognizant of the race ratio of the jurors vs. the race of their client. But with the hundreds of thousands of trials daily across the US, many that are jury trials, it is bound to have happened, especially in densely populated black areas where the defendent is white.
Malarkey I think you're overstating how likely that is. Jury selection isn't a random snapshot of the local population that gets accepted without scrutiny. In any serious criminal case, both sides spend considerable effort evaluating jurors and raising objections where they see potential bias. That's precisely why people pay attention to the makeup of a jury in the first place. So while an all-one-race jury for a defendant of another race is certainly possible, it's not something that can simply be brushed off with "it must happen all the time." If jury composition is considered relevant in one direction, then consistency requires acknowledging that people will notice it in the other direction as well. The real question isn't whether it has happened before, but whether the selection process produced a fair and impartial jury.