Friday, June 07, 2002

'G' names in jury pool win suspect a new trial

I bet Scalia would love this. A south Florida drug dealer won a new trial because the jury pool used in his trial was made mostly of people whose last names started in "G", because of a quirk in the selection system from what I can tell. Most "G" surnames -- in Florida, anyway -- are Latin, and the defendant is African-American. The argument is that the predominance of Latin jurors violated the right to a trial by a jury of his peers.

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