Bloomberg Law
December 4, 2017, 8:02 PM UTC

Justices Won’t Hear Claim Blacks, Women Wrongly Struck from Jury

Bloomberg Law - Staff Reports

By Jordan S. Rubin

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Dec. 4 to take up an Alabama inmate’s claim that prosecutors wrongly rebuffed women and blacks from the jury that sentenced him to death.

But the court’s refusal shouldn’t be taken as an endorsement of the government’s use of peremptory strikes in picking Christopher Floyd’s jury, two of the high court’s most outspoken members on the death penalty said in a written statement respecting the denial.

“Although the unique context of Floyd’s case counsels against review by this Court, I find the underlying facts sufficiently troubling to note that in the ...

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