Anonymous
11/05/2015 10:11
Subject: Re:Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Black people rarely show up for jury duty unless they are forced to.
I was wondering how many comments it would take before the first comment appeared that said that this actually has nothing to do with racism or race-based discrimination, and it's all black people's own fault anyway. Answer: 3. Yay, DCUM.
I didn't make up the fact. So wonder all you want.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/13/1411871/-Black-People-Can-t-Afford-to-Avoid-Jury-Duty#
Original article by Charles F. Coleman Jr. is a civil rights trial attorney, legal analyst and former Brooklyn, N.Y., prosecutor. He is also a professor of criminal justice at Berkeley College in New York.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/08/jury_duty_why_african_americans_can_t_afford_to_dodge_it.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content%26http://
I will type slowly, so maybe, just maybe, you will understand.
Black people not showing up for jury duty has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the ones who DID show up were not selected. This post is about the ones who showed up and were not selected because they were black. Get it now?
Anonymous
11/05/2015 10:05
Subject: Re:Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
Anonymous wrote:Black people rarely show up for jury duty unless they are forced to.
That is not the argument being made. The OP stated that 4 showed up and were dismissed for bogus reasons. That is the reason for this being elevated to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court justices found fault with the logic of the prosecutors made in dismissing the black jurors. Nothing was stated about not showing up.
Anonymous
11/05/2015 08:27
Subject: Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
Assign jurors numbers, supply some background information and only identify gender. Let the questioning begin behind a curtain. That would be about the only way you could take race out of it.
Anonymous
11/05/2015 06:27
Subject: Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
I'm a 38 yo white female who's been summoned five times in my life. I've lived in five cities in three states and have been called in all of them. I only served on one traffic jury, however.
MikeL
11/05/2015 06:12
Subject: Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
Anonymous wrote:I am 57 years old, African American. I have been registered to vote since I was 18 years old. I have never once been called for jury duty. Not once in my life.
Not trying to say anything about this topic, just echoing your experience.
I am 58 years old. White. Registered to vote since I was 18. I have never once been called for jury duty.
Anonymous
11/05/2015 02:36
Subject: Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
Anonymous wrote:I am 57 years old, African American. I have been registered to vote since I was 18 years old. I have never once been called for jury duty. Not once in my life.
That's amazing. I'm AA and have been called for jury duty 3 times in the last 2 years. Once for the city, one for district and one for federal court.
Anonymous
11/03/2015 16:32
Subject: Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
Anonymous wrote:I am 57 years old, African American. I have been registered to vote since I was 18 years old. I have never once been called for jury duty. Not once in my life.
42 year old AA. Got my first letter last year and showed up but not selected. Contrary to what many may presume I was disappointed.
Anonymous
11/03/2015 12:45
Subject: Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
I am 57 years old, African American. I have been registered to vote since I was 18 years old. I have never once been called for jury duty. Not once in my life.
Anonymous
11/03/2015 12:18
Subject: Re:Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Black people rarely show up for jury duty unless they are forced to.
I was wondering how many comments it would take before the first comment appeared that said that this actually has nothing to do with racism or race-based discrimination, and it's all black people's own fault anyway. Answer: 3. Yay, DCUM.
I didn't make up the fact. So wonder all you want.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/13/1411871/-Black-People-Can-t-Afford-to-Avoid-Jury-Duty#
Original article by Charles F. Coleman Jr. is a civil rights trial attorney, legal analyst and former Brooklyn, N.Y., prosecutor. He is also a professor of criminal justice at Berkeley College in New York.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/08/jury_duty_why_african_americans_can_t_afford_to_dodge_it.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content%26http://
The point is that prosecutors are much more likely to strike potential jurors who are black than potential jurors who are white.
How does your fact relate to this point? Or are prosecutors striking potential jurors who didn't show up for jury duty?
Anonymous
11/03/2015 12:14
Subject: Re:Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
Anonymous wrote:I have never sat on an all white jury.
5 regular juries
3 grand juries
1 federal jury
And so therefore...?
Surely you wouldn't conclude from this that there is no such thing as an all white jury or racial discrimination in jury selection? That would be like me concluding that nobody sits on a jury, because I have been called for jury duty four times but have never sat on a jury.
Anonymous
11/03/2015 12:06
Subject: Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
Anonymous wrote:I'm a white 29yo f and have been to jury selection 7 times. I've never once sat on a jury though. I've been tossed out of drug and DUI cases. I assume that because I'm young they think I drink and do drugs? It always seems ridiculously arbitrary why I'm always kicked off.
Frankly I'd like to sit on a jury so that they won't keep asking me to come back year after year.
Interesting. I'm a wf 49 y.o. and I've never served either, I've never even been questioned.