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From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Blacks and Justce
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 17:03:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 17:03:39 1985
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> 	    Why would being excluded from juries be an advantage to blacks?
>        Is that not denying them access to a very important, perhaps the most
>        important, judicial tool?

  Sorry, if this was not clear.  OF COURSE, it is a disadvantage.
Whites cannot be so easily excluded, because they form majority.
On the other hand, whenever there is an instance of a judicial
outrage [like exonaration of KKK or giving a life sentence to
an innocent black] one can read about "all-white jury".  To some
extend, it is not connected with racism, but with vunrebility
of any minority under the current system.  For this reason
exactly I suggested that the institution of pre-emptive challenge
of jurors seems to be harmful.
  Since many people have various kinds of grievances to the justice
system, I propose to start discusion on this topic (not necessarily
related to Blacks).

Piotr