The Peremptory Strike on Black Peopleid Jurors

Four out of five peremptory challenges used on black peopleid. It should be incumbent on judges to conduct more searching voirdeer and be more diligent in screening jurors, he says. This duty properly rests with our trial judges, who are carefully vetted and selected for their independence and impartiality,. Counsel, on the other hand, have a role to play that is biased, that is deliberately partial. They represent their clients, and as a result they operate as a vestigial organ of jim crow - long in need of excision.