Quote:
Originally Posted by classicman
I like what Ibram did with the statistics though. Interesting on the gay question too. Hmm, I wonder if that would be a relevant stance if sexuality was germane to the crime.
|
Yeah, but according to your quote, there are 12 people on the jury, not 9. Plus 2 alternates. I don't know why Ibby did his calculation based on 9. It all still rounds off to 1 black juror if you are trying to mimic the general population. But it's between 1 and 2, not less than 1.
I think it would be healthy to have a couple blacks on the jury. It looks bad with all whites. I'm not gonna lose sleep over it though. They had their day in court (literally) to try to get a sympathetic jury.