Arbery judge: Seating one Black juror seems to be 'intentional discrimination.' Same judge: Oh well
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After more than two weeks of proceedings, a jury was seated on Wednesday in the trial of three white men accused of hunting down and murdering Ahmaud Arbery after they saw him jogging on property under construction in South Georgia. Only one juror out oArbery judge: Seating one Black juror seems to be 'intentional discrimination.' Same judge: Oh well
After more than two weeks of proceedings, a jury was seated on Wednesday in the trial of three white men accused of hunting down and murdering Ahmaud Arbery after they saw him jogging on property under construction in South Georgia. Only one juror out of 12 is Black, The New York Times reported of the case centering former Georgia cop and prosecutorial investigator Gregory McMichael, his son Travis, and local resident William «Roddie» Bryan. “This court has found that there appears to be intentional discrimination on the panel,« Glynn County Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley said, »but that doesn't mean the court has the authority to reseat simply because we have this prima facie case." And even though Walmsley admitted that “quite a few African American jurors were excused through peremptory strikes executed by the defense,” he ultimately decided to allow the imbalance, parting ways with a special prosecutor who challenged the removal of eight Black people from the potential jury pool. Read more

