http://arkansasnews.com/2009/09/23/court-exclusion-of-black-woman-from-jury-ok/ Your Source For Everything Arkansas Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:49:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://arkansasnews.com/2009/09/23/court-exclusion-of-black-woman-from-jury-ok/comment-page-1/#comment-2599 All-White Jury? No Problem « Pursuances Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:02:54 +0000 http://arkansasnews.com/?p=76982#comment-2599 [...] Riley, who is black, was convicted by an all-white jury (though not the attentive bunch above) of robbing an Arkansas convenience store in 2007 and sentenced to 80 years in prison as a repeat offender (there’s that word again). One African-American woman was among the potential jurors randomly selected, and the prosecutor used one of his allotted peremptory challenges to strike her. When the defense challenged, he said it was because she was young, inattentive, didn’t complete a juror questionnaire — and because she was black. [...] [...] Riley, who is black, was convicted by an all-white jury (though not the attentive bunch above) of robbing an Arkansas convenience store in 2007 and sentenced to 80 years in prison as a repeat offender (there’s that word again). One African-American woman was among the potential jurors randomly selected, and the prosecutor used one of his allotted peremptory challenges to strike her. When the defense challenged, he said it was because she was young, inattentive, didn’t complete a juror questionnaire — and because she was black. [...]

]]> http://arkansasnews.com/2009/09/23/court-exclusion-of-black-woman-from-jury-ok/comment-page-1/#comment-2581 thisisasadworld Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:02:50 +0000 http://arkansasnews.com/?p=76982#comment-2581 In the first place why would they have an all white juror to judge a black person? cuz we all kno what that judgement would of been whether he was guilty or not. but to find all these reasons just to kick the black lady off the juror doesnt make sense to me. this world doesnt belong to you me or nobody it belongs to all of us no matter what color they are anyways. it sounds like to me they tried to find all these reasons to get the black lady off juror anyways. CAUSE WHY WAS IT ALL WHITES IN THE FIRST PLACE? haha we all kno why In the first place why would they have an all white juror to judge a black person? cuz we all kno what that judgement would of been whether he was guilty or not. but to find all these reasons just to kick the black lady off the juror doesnt make sense to me. this world doesnt belong to you me or nobody it belongs to all of us no matter what color they are anyways. it sounds like to me they tried to find all these reasons to get the black lady off juror anyways. CAUSE WHY WAS IT ALL WHITES IN THE FIRST PLACE? haha we all kno why

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