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The Role of Racial Diversity in Jury Selection: Legal and Ethical Considerations

A legal analysis of the role racial diversity plays in jury selection and its ethical implications in the justice system.

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The Role of Racial Diversity in Jury Selection: Legal and EthicalConsiderationsThe Supreme Court has repeatedly asserted that a defendant is not entitled to a jury composed inwhole or in part of persons of his own race. Although these rulings establish that states are notobligated to use racially mixed juries, they do not prohibit states from doing so. In fact, a numberof policymakers and legal scholars have proposed reforms that use racial criteria to promoteracial diversity on American juries. Somehave suggested that the names of majority race jurorsbe removed from the jury list (thus ensuring a larger proportion of racial minorities); others havesuggested that a certain number of seats on each jury be set aside for racial minorities.•How wouldyou justify these reforms to a state legislature?•How would an opponent of these reforms respond?•Overall, are these good ideas or bad ideas?Suggested Answers:•How would you justify these reforms to a state legislature?The basic purpose of a jury’s selection isto ensure that each defendant get justice.They are made up of the community and mostlychosenat random without taking their color andrace into consideration. Thus anything that can affect the true selection of the jury will change itsmeaning and its purpose. Then this so called selected jury will no longer represent thecommunity.The legislatures and policy makers must not permitted to discriminate based on racewhile selecting jury members. The courts must focus and should take notice of all those action

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