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"Three Strikes and You're Out? Critics Seek Juror-Dismissal Cap."

"Three Strikes and You're Out? Critics Seek Juror-Dismissal Cap." Today in The Wall Street Journal, Nathan Koppel has an article that begins, "In the interest of fair trials, attorneys can dismiss people from jury pools for dressing strangely, for being fat, even for just looking at them funny. What lawyers can't do is dismiss potential jurors based on their race, gender or ethnicity. Yet, attorneys and academics say, it happens all the time. To root out discrimination in the jury room, critics have called for a radical solution: Get rid of peremptory strikes, which typically allow lawyers to dismiss a limited number of jurors, no questions asked."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 05, 2009 (boomark / email).