Executed child found to be innocent

[Bricker]

@llcoolbj77

Bolding mine. This does still happen today. In fact, we just had a CLE about Batson and you would be amazed how much prosecutors get away with in Southern courtrooms, excusing jurors of color. The statistics are actually really really sad. I’ll dig 'em up if you want.

Twelve years ago, I said:

@Bricker

It also means that prosecutors – because, let’s face it: prosecutors are, nine times out of ten, the ones defending Batson challenges – are almost encouraged to come up with BS reasons for their strikes. “I struck him because he’s too old/too young/unemployed/employed as a ______/dressed too shabbily/dressed too expensively/wouldn’t answer my questions/spoke up too much/is married/isn’t married…” The list can be endless, and the system encourages lying… er, creative explanations.