Blacks excluded from juries in Louisiana - most residents & people arrested for crimes are black

[Anonymous]

From article:

"Caddo Parish is 48 percent black, and 83 percent of the defendants in the new study were black. But the typical 12-member criminal jury had fewer than four blacks on it, the report said. Much of the gap had nothing to do with peremptory strikes. Of the 8,318 potential jurors in the study, which reviewed 332 trials from 2003 to 2012, only 35 percent were black."

The racist justification.

"Here are some reasons prosecutors have offered for excluding blacks from juries: They were young or old, single or divorced, religious or not, failed to make eye contact, lived in a poor part of town, had served in the military, had a hyphenated last name, displayed bad posture, were sullen, disrespectful or talkative, had long hair, wore a beard."

Of course, there is no racism any more and Jindal will never address this. David Vitter who is poised to be the next governor of Louisiana has spoken publicly in favor of slavery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/us/politics/exclusion-of-blacks-from-juries-raises-renewed-scrutiny.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From article:

"Caddo Parish is 48 percent black, and 83 percent of the defendants in the new study were black. But the typical 12-member criminal jury had fewer than four blacks on it, the report said. Much of the gap had nothing to do with peremptory strikes. Of the 8,318 potential jurors in the study, which reviewed 332 trials from 2003 to 2012, only 35 percent were black."

The racist justification.

"Here are some reasons prosecutors have offered for excluding blacks from juries: They were young or old, single or divorced, religious or not, failed to make eye contact, lived in a poor part of town, had served in the military, had a hyphenated last name, displayed bad posture, were sullen, disrespectful or talkative, had long hair, wore a beard."

Of course, there is no racism any more and Jindal will never address this. David Vitter who is poised to be the next governor of Louisiana has spoken publicly in favor of slavery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/us/politics/exclusion-of-blacks-from-juries-raises-renewed-scrutiny.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Gotta tell you, when the black juror on the OJ Simpson case threw the Black Panthers sign on the way out the door after acquitting OJ? Not real helpful, now was it...

[Anonymous]

Your subject line is deceptive and not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your subject line is deceptive and not true.

This jumped at me too.
You need to get honest here, OP. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Louisiana is one of many bastions of institutional racists abetted by the republican political apparatus.

[Anonymous]

Jury is based on voter registration, right? Maybe those 48% aren't properly registered to vote and, of those, don't make an ideal juror. Probability is low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jury is based on voter registration, right? Maybe those 48% aren't properly registered to vote and, of those, don't make an ideal juror. Probability is low.

Yes, we know that racists whites don't want to be judged by black people.

[Anonymous]

I've known Southern racists on both sides of the aisle.

[Anonymous]

Caddo Parish is run by Democrats and Blacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Caddo Parish is run by Democrats and Blacks.

Fascinating.

[Anonymous]

Just a quick click

http://www.caddo.org/index.aspx?NID=309

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a quick click

http://www.caddo.org/index.aspx?NID=309

Which part of it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Gotta tell you, when the black juror on the OJ Simpson case threw the Black Panthers sign on the way out the door after acquitting OJ? Not real helpful, now was it...

pretty sure that juror in California in 1995 has zero to do with Louisiana in 2015.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Caddo Parish is run by Democrats and Blacks.

If this is true, someone please explain the problem.

[Anonymous]

If the prosecutor is trying to get a conviction and thinks a person will automatically vote for acquittal, he will strike the person. Period. That is not racist. That is fact. As PP said, the OJ trail didn't help things.