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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From article:

[b]"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."[/b]

The racist justification.

[b]"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."[/b]

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.  :roll:

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&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news[/quote]

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...[/quote]

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