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A post worth repeating

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

A Criminal Enterprise offers this post on the federal death penalty in NOLA & surrounding counties: When cases are prosecuted in federal court ? here, the Eastern District of Louisiana (which encompasses Orleans Parish) ? the jury is culled from the district as a whole, not just the county or parish where the crime occurred.  Not surprisingly, this larger pool of potential jurors in the Eastern District has a far lower percentage of African Americans.  The decision to prosecute an Orleans case federally results in the transformation of the jury demographics from a parish that is predominantly (61%) African-American to a venire that is predominantly (65%) white. My colleague and mentor, Ben Cohen, currently represents a capital defendant in federal court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).