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.”

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  • Flying Squid
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    26 months ago

    I’m not only telling about jury bias. I’m talking about the justice system as a whole.

    Okay, but this is about jury bias, as have my posts been, so if you wanted to change the subject, you should have said so.

    Because in cases with all white juries (even those with white women) they’re still more likely to convict a black defendant.

    That still doesn’t mean that a bias against women, even if they are white, is not a problem. And no one was arguing in favor of all-white juries, so I’m not sure why you’re even bringing that up.

    • @Cosmonauticus
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      26 months ago

      Because your original comment placed the blame solely on straight white even though white women are a major part of jury bias towards minorities

      • Flying Squid
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        Which still doesn’t change the fact that there is a gender bias in jury selection. Bias in jury selection is always bad. Racial bias is bad, religious bias is bad, gender bias is bad. The whole point is to not have a jury of just white men. I’m not sure why that doesn’t include women to you just because they might be white.

        Or are you saying white people shouldn’t be on juries at all?

        • @Cosmonauticus
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          No one is arguing gender bias isn’t a problem but seeing this article is mainly about racial/ethnic bias you deciding to lay the blame at the feet of only white men makes no sense considering white women are also part of the problem.

          The point is to not have a jury of only WHITE PPL because statistically a jury made up of only white men and women are just as biased as a group of only white men.

          • Flying Squid
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            Please quote me when I laid blame at the feet of only white men.

            The point is to not have a jury of only WHITE PPL

            Again, no one is arguing in favor of that. Not me, not anyone else.

            • @Cosmonauticus
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              26 months ago

              It’s almost as if you’re not part of cisgendered, white, male, heteronormative subsection of society, you see how inherently unjust our so-called justice system is, isn’t it?

              This isn’t solely blaming white men?

              You literally distanced everyone who isn’t a white straight male from the problem presented in the article including white women even though they are a major part of the problem. While this makes sense for black Latino, Asian and lgbtq groups including white women in that list is on some bullshit

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                Blaming them for… not noticing something? Yes. Guilty.

                • @Cosmonauticus
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                  6 months ago

                  White women do it too…

                  And ignorance of injustice leads to more injustice

                  • Flying Squid
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                    06 months ago

                    Okay, I get it. White women are the worst people in the world and should be barred from being on juries.