Alameda County prosecutors allegedly excluded Black people and Jews from death penalty juries
Alameda County prosecutors allegedly excluded Black people and Jews from death penalty juries
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Alameda County prosecutors allegedly excluded Black people and Jews from death penalty juries
In an order issued today, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said that the hand-written notes of prosecutors from a 31-year-old murder case “constitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the [Alameda County District Attorney’s] office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically excluding Jewish and African American jurors in death penalty cases.”