Judge’s controversial crusade renews diversity debate
“Minority defendants tried by all-white juries are more likely to be convicted than black defendants who face more diverse juries.
“A 2012 Duke University study found that all-white jury pools – the people called in for jury duty on any given day – in Florida convicted black defendants 16 times more often than white defendants. […]
“These findings imply that the application of justice is highly uneven and raise obvious concerns about the fairness of trials in jurisdictions with a small proportion of blacks in the jury pool”
The Kentucky Supreme Court will consider whether juries must be diverse after a judge dismisses an all-white jury.
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