Jackson v. Thigpen’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “[T]he standard operating procedure of the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s Office at the time of petitioner’s trial was to use the peremptory challenges to strike as many blacks as possible from the venires in cases involving serious crimes. The Tuscaloosa County prosecutors also manipulated the trial docket in their effort to preserve the racial purity of criminal juries, [footnote omitted] Inasmuch as they actually set the criminal trial dockets until 1982, they implemented a scheme in which juries with fewer black venireper-sons would be called for the serious cases. The use of peremptory challenges by the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s Office effectively resulted in the systematic exclusion of blacks from trial juries in serf ous criminal cases prior to 1982. [footnote omitted] This systematic exclusion of blacks ... occurred in eases where both the defendant and the alleged victim were black and resulted in the all-white jury that tried petitioner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jackson v. Herring