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June 27th, 2007
An article in today’s New York Times reports that whites are overrepresented in New York jury pools. A survey of over 12,000 potential jurors was conducted by Citizen Action of New York, a public interest group in Albany. The study found that the people who show up for jury duty in Manhattan are disproportionately white, and that hispanics are the most underrepresented group. I have heard many trial lawyers in Florida complain of the same problem during jury selection in Florida, so the study is worth reading. The complete text of the article can be read by clicking here: Jury Pool Study
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1. Ginny | July 16th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Caucasians don’t volunteer for jury duty. We are summoned. We are also less likely to be in government jobs than non-Caucasians, and it is the government workers who are paid for jury duty while private sector workers generally just have to take the economic loss.
It is Caucasians who have the right to complain about discrimination because these repeated jury summmonses are harassment. We are forced to serve criminals who demand their rights and then complain that the jury must have been biased when their right to a trial doesn’t get them the verdict they wanted.
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