Supreme Court orders new trial in murder case that raised questions of racial bias
Posted on AllSides June 21st, 2019
From The Left
The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the most recent conviction of a Mississippi man who has been tried an extraordinary six times for a quadruple murder in 1996, finding that a zealous prosecutor once again had improperly kept African Americans off the jury.
The decision was 7 to 2, with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh writing the majority opinion. He said it broke no new legal ground, but reinforced the court’s rulings about when a prosecutor’s bias eliminated a potential juror.
Justice Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch dissented.
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