This Is How Prosecutors (Still) Keep Black People Off Juries

The exclusion of black people from juries is a hot topic this week, as the United States Supreme Court considers the case of Timothy Foster, a black man charged with murdering an elderly white woman in Georgia some three decades ago. Foster was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white jury after prosecution lawyers used their so-called peremptory strikes to disqualify the blacks in the pool, citing "race-neutral" reasons. Up until this point in the case, the courts had accepted those alt...