berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman) (09/07/85)
> Why would being excluded from juries be an advantage to blacks? > Is that not denying them access to a very important, perhaps the most > important, judicial tool? Sorry, if this was not clear. OF COURSE, it is a disadvantage. Whites cannot be so easily excluded, because they form majority. On the other hand, whenever there is an instance of a judicial outrage [like exonaration of KKK or giving a life sentence to an innocent black] one can read about "all-white jury". To some extend, it is not connected with racism, but with vunrebility of any minority under the current system. For this reason exactly I suggested that the institution of pre-emptive challenge of jurors seems to be harmful. Since many people have various kinds of grievances to the justice system, I propose to start discusion on this topic (not necessarily related to Blacks). Piotr