35 years ago, SCOTUS ruled that racial bias in jury selection can influence a trial. But North Carolina has never recognized that ruling. #ncpol
That could change Wednesday, when the NC Supreme Court hears a case similar to this one I wrote about in 2020: newsobserver.com/article2444312…
That could change Wednesday, when the NC Supreme Court hears a case similar to this one I wrote about in 2020: newsobserver.com/article2444312…
After that SCOTUS ruling, North Carolina had a statewide training called Top Gun II (it was the '90s) for prosecutors on how to strike Black people from juries without mentioning race--like having a haircut that might show "resistance to authority" #ncpol aclu.org/legal-document… 
You know what? It worked
"Even judges in heavily conservative Alabama have overturned about 80 convictions due to Batson challenges, said David Weiss, an attorney for the Durham-based Center for Death Penalty Litigation. But zero in North Carolina" #ncpol newsobserver.com/article2444312…
"Even judges in heavily conservative Alabama have overturned about 80 convictions due to Batson challenges, said David Weiss, an attorney for the Durham-based Center for Death Penalty Litigation. But zero in North Carolina" #ncpol newsobserver.com/article2444312…
And while that training to help DAs talk around race when striking Black jurors is from the early '90s, it's still in use.
In the case coming up at the Supreme Court, Wake County prosecutors (in 2016) used #4 and #5 from the list above to keep two Black women off the jury #ncpol
In the case coming up at the Supreme Court, Wake County prosecutors (in 2016) used #4 and #5 from the list above to keep two Black women off the jury #ncpol
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