Jury pool of 500 in Karmelo Anthony trial and they pick an ALL WHITE JURY

Everything I don’t like is woke :( :(

Another very normal, not at all racist or right-wing circle-jerkish post on LR. The BroJos must be oh so proud!

Let's see:

If you want a murderer locked up - you are "right wing".

If you want a murderer to walk free - you are a Democrat.

Your projection is hilaripus. Considering most of what actually gets pulled, you are portraying the exact opposite of reality, just like the stunning and oh so brave defenders of this mindless killer.

Title is misleading, not just because we don't know that the jury is all white.

Most of those 500 were eliminated through questionnaires and excuses from service.

Only about 40 made the cut to voir dire.

3 of those were black, all female.

Each was an educator, so they were dismissed.

There was no systematic attempt to keep blacks off the jury.

Nope

Nope.

He’s at the very least guilty of manslaughter. He should be incarcerated.

I don’t think that white people are being hunted though. I don’t think that Matt Walsh is a clarion of clear, sober thinking here. And that’s what makes me a normal person, and the rest of you bad-faith right-wing circle-jerking racists.

Based

Right. A pool of over 500 people, pared down to 12 jurors and 6 alternatives. Not one of them black. Just the way it worked out

How is this even about right vs left? How is this even a political issue?

Good for a pat on the head from the closest Soc professor. Stunning and brave.

…you think white people are being hunted?

It’s not, really, unless you are considering that all of the people making stupefyingly racist assertions in relation to it are all right-wing.

The left makes everything political - especially if a black teen is involved.

That's not true, even though you would love it to be. The biggest racists are on the other side of this.

The facts here would be the same if this were two white kids, two black kids, two Asian kids, and so on.

It's about the crime, not what the people involved look like.

Unless you're a racist.

Like the ones taunting the victim's supporters outside the courthouse.

Translation: if you think a murderer should be locked up, and the murderer is black, that's racist!

How does that comment relate to my post?

Frisco is roughly 9% black. In a perfect system, one would expect 1.6 of 18 to be black (although blacks are more likely to have a prior felony, which is a disqualifier for jury duty, so it might be slightly less). Having no black jurors is not a huge statistical anomaly. Between a quarter and a third of Frisco is Asian. There are likely a number of Asians on the jury. There are likely 1-2 Hispanics on the jury and the remainder are likely white (Frisco is about 45% white). In Texas, each side gets 10 peremptory challenges where they can dismiss a juror without cause. It is an imperfect system (just as it was for Trump’s trials in New York and Jan 6 trials in Washington DC where 90% of potential jurors were Democrats).

By and large, Prosecutors are more concerned with winning than justice, so they will use their peremptory challenges to exclude those they anticipate are an impediment to victory (prejudices do play a role. In this case, prosecutors would look to excuse black jurors. In Trump’s and Jan 6 cases, prosecutors would cross reference voter registration records to strike potential Republican jurors). A better system would be to make jury selection blind, where attorneys are not made aware of the gender, color or name of the potential jurors.