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brojack@windswept.org (brojack) wrote in message news:<3ce63db1.2705799@news.easynews.com>...
> Another example of our liberal ruling class.
> 
> Bro Jack
> 
> http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/051702/D7JIR6002.html
> 
> Court orders new trial for suspect in teen shooting spree
> 
> The Associated Press 
> 
> LAKELAND, Fla. - A state appeals court ordered a new trial Friday for
> a man who as a teen-ager was convicted in a Polk County shooting spree
> that left two dead and seven injured.
> 
> The Second District Court of Appeal said a judge erred in Curtis
> Shuler Jr.'s 1999 trial by allowing prosecutors to remove a black
> woman as a prospective juror without good reason.
> 
> No blacks were on the jury that convicted Shuler of first-degree
> murder.
> 
> Shuler is black and all the victims in the shooting spree were white,
> although investigators said at the time they did not think race played
> a role in the slayings.
> 
> Shuler, who was 16 when the shooting occurred, is now 20. He has been
> serving a life sentence.
> 
> He was accused of being one of three teen-age boys who went on a
> weeklong shooting spring in 1998 in a series of carjackings and
> invasion robberies. Polk County Sheriff Lawrence Crow called it the
> "bloodiest crime spree by juveniles" he had ever seen.
> 
> The victims included two people killed in their cars and a family of
> five from Georgia who were at a Polk County motel for a family
> reunion. A 10-year-old girl was shot in the head and chest.
> 
> When Shuler's case went to trial in 1999, only three of the potential
> 53 jurors were black. Shuler's attorney objected to the state's
> rejection of two black jurors, calling on them to state "race neutral"
> reasons why they couldn't serve.
> 
> One of the potential jurors worked for a company under investigation
> by the state attorney's office, and the appeals court found no fault
> with her dismissal.
> 
> The second juror, though, was said to be not fit for duty because she
> couldn't recall the details of another murder trial in which she
> served. Several white jurors also failed to recall details of trials
> they sat in on, including murder cases, but they were not challenged
> by prosecutors, the appeals court noted.
> 
> The appeals judges said the trial judge made a mistake in accepting
> prosecutors' reasons as genuine.


Now the Court orders that prospectiver jurors with onset dementia be seated!

Vance