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An illustration shows a brown, floating jury box against a blue background. There are 12 jurors sitting in the jury box, with two empty chairs on the left.
Life Inside June 14
A Criminal Justice Journalist Wrestles With Doubts in the Jury Box
A longtime journalist serving on a jury must weigh the flaws of the system against the holes in the gun and drug case he heard.
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Crishala Reed wrote on a jury questionnaire that she supports Black Lives Matter. She was soon removed from the jury pool
News July 7, 2020
You Can Get Kicked Out of a Jury Pool For Supporting Black Lives Matter
But is it legal? A California appeals court is going to decide.
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Life Inside April 4, 2019
The Day I Didn’t Serve on a Jury in a Sex Assault Case
“As I left the courthouse it dawned on me that the judge had assumed the role of therapist.”
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Life Inside February 21, 2019
I Was a Juror on a Murder Trial, And I Still Can’t Let It Go
“I felt an overwhelming sense of injustice. How did this happen?”
By Audrey Pischl
Analysis October 14, 2016
In Florida, Only Seven Jurors Can Put You to Death
The other quirk in the state’s death penalty system.
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Analysis May 23, 2016
Can Courtroom Prejudice Be Proved?
The Supreme Court considers what it takes to show that prosecutors, when they pick juries, are discriminating against minorities.
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Quiz April 10, 2016
How Racist is Too Racist?
Take our quiz on juror bias.
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Commentary March 28, 2016
A Judge Overturned a Death Sentence Because the Prosecutor Compared a Black Defendant to King Kong
The South Carolina prosecutor is known as ‘Death Penalty Donnie.’
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Life Inside March 10, 2016
My Regrets as a Juror Who Sent a Man to Death Row
“If I could have done anything, it would have been to deadlock the jury, but I didn’t have the personal strength to do that.”
By Sven Berger as told to
The entrance to New York County Criminal Court at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan.
Life Inside October 27, 2015
Confessions of a Grand Juror
Ten days in a room with 22 other jurors. What could possibly go wrong?
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