>>>”It merely eradicates discrimination from jury selection, but by reinforcing the idea that justice is blind (which includes colorblind) I suspect it in fact does enhance public confidence in the fairness of the system of justice. Too bad Democrats no longer understand that.”
Why is this considered a good thing? Do you actually believe that an all male jury is in the best position to fairly and comprehensively deliberate on an acquaintance rape case?
What may work in theory, doesn’t always translate into reality.
–Cobra
John RosenbergDecember 4, 2005 at 12:31 am | Permalink | Reply
Do you actually believe that an all male jury is in the best position to fairly and comprehensively deliberate on an acquaintance rape case?
No. And I think it would be wrong to exclude potential women jurors because of their sex, but also wrong to assume juries must be proportionately representational by race, sex, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation, moon sign, etc., to be fair.
Carl C. Wilson Jr., Esq.March 14, 2007 at 7:01 pm | Permalink | Reply
This article is typical White European-American Conservative spin. There has never been systematic widespread jury suppression in the US of White European-Americans. But there is current racist/sexist jury suppression against People of Color & Women in the US.
MI has a duty under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution & the Supremacy Clause to follow federal law Taylor v LA 419 US 522(75) says juries must reflect the community. But this rule makes it illegal for MI State Judges to create community representative juries when the jury pools do not accurately reflect the community.
This is not an affirmative action or racial profiling issue. It is a US Supremacy Clause issue. MI Court Rule 2.511 violates US federal law.
At the MI Supreme Court hearing on 9/29/05 testimony with documentation that recently Kent County (Grand Rapids, MI) removed all Black Afrikan-Americans from its jury pool “due to a computer glitch” and Wayne County’s Chief Judge (Detroit, MI) tried to remove a Black Afrikan-American Judge that sought to increase Black Afrikan-Americans in the felony jury pool to follow federal law. This recent State Action of Black Afrikan-American jury suppression makes this “colorblind” rule intentional racial discrimination against Black Afrikan-Americans by the arch Conservative Federalist Society Republican dominated MI Supreme Court. Finally Black Afrikan-American MI Supreme Court Justice Robert P. Young Jr. was the deciding vote of this new Sexist/Racist and federally unconstitutional jury rule. See “blog.zenaslaw.com”
No More Racial Profiling On Michigan Juries
No More Racial Profiling On Michigan Juries
No More Racial Profiling On Michigan Juries
No More Racial Profiling On Michigan Juries
John writes:
>>>”It merely eradicates discrimination from jury selection, but by reinforcing the idea that justice is blind (which includes colorblind) I suspect it in fact does enhance public confidence in the fairness of the system of justice. Too bad Democrats no longer understand that.”
Why is this considered a good thing? Do you actually believe that an all male jury is in the best position to fairly and comprehensively deliberate on an acquaintance rape case?
What may work in theory, doesn’t always translate into reality.
–Cobra
Do you actually believe that an all male jury is in the best position to fairly and comprehensively deliberate on an acquaintance rape case?
No. And I think it would be wrong to exclude potential women jurors because of their sex, but also wrong to assume juries must be proportionately representational by race, sex, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation, moon sign, etc., to be fair.
This article is typical White European-American Conservative spin. There has never been systematic widespread jury suppression in the US of White European-Americans. But there is current racist/sexist jury suppression against People of Color & Women in the US.
MI has a duty under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution & the Supremacy Clause to follow federal law Taylor v LA 419 US 522(75) says juries must reflect the community. But this rule makes it illegal for MI State Judges to create community representative juries when the jury pools do not accurately reflect the community.
This is not an affirmative action or racial profiling issue. It is a US Supremacy Clause issue. MI Court Rule 2.511 violates US federal law.
At the MI Supreme Court hearing on 9/29/05 testimony with documentation that recently Kent County (Grand Rapids, MI) removed all Black Afrikan-Americans from its jury pool “due to a computer glitch” and Wayne County’s Chief Judge (Detroit, MI) tried to remove a Black Afrikan-American Judge that sought to increase Black Afrikan-Americans in the felony jury pool to follow federal law. This recent State Action of Black Afrikan-American jury suppression makes this “colorblind” rule intentional racial discrimination against Black Afrikan-Americans by the arch Conservative Federalist Society Republican dominated MI Supreme Court. Finally Black Afrikan-American MI Supreme Court Justice Robert P. Young Jr. was the deciding vote of this new Sexist/Racist and federally unconstitutional jury rule. See “blog.zenaslaw.com”