Data Collection:

The Source Results Factors: Correlations

Sommers & Michael -Practicing attorneys, Age -They tend to take out

I. Norton & Sara law students and Marriage Status a black juror during

Brauner, 2007, college students in (Married or Not or Criminal Cases, So

Bias in Jury similar selections ted divorced) that a criminal does

Selection: Justifying to eliminate a black Financial Status not come out scotch

Prohibited juror, when the free, because of how

Peremptory defendant is a black severe White Jurors

Challenges defendant are

The Impact of Jury in -Cases with no blacks Defendant Whites tend to be

Criminal Trials, in jury pool, black Race of the more harsher on

Shamena Anwar, defendants are Defendant matters conviction rates,

Patrick Bayer, Randi convicted at an 81% especially ones that

Hjalmarsson, 2012, and 66% for white have the defendant

Shamena Anwar, - One black, 71% for being black.

Patrick Bayer, Randi black and 73% for - Black Defendants

Hjalmarsson, 2012 white are charged the most

-Black Potential

Jurors can affect trial

outcomes
 -64% had a potential

black juror but only

28% of them actually

were able to get a seat

- Black Defendants

has less charges than

White Defendants

and they are still

found more guilty

than them

Untangling the Role - Prosecutors were -MSU professors -Correlates back to

of Race in Capital more than twice as focused on the trials first Case

Charging and likely to strike where criminals were Can see that Whites

Sentencing in North qualified blacks from sentenced to death are more harsher

Carolina. Barbara serving on a jury as row. And look into when it comes to

O’Brien & Catherine members of other the race of the jury. Sentencing

M. Grosso 2011. races in North Blacks were Struck

Carolina harder than any other

- Revealed it would race, (60% strike rate)

be more likely that compared to the

you will be sentenced 55.6% of non-black).

to death if one of the This data is not

victims of the random, it's reliable.

criminal were white -​Correlates back to

-​ ​2.39 times more first source, where

likely that a black black jurors get struck

venire member gets more likely

struck compared to .

any other race.

Race was a

significant factor in

prosecutorial

decisions to exercise

peremptory

challenges in jury

selection

-They discover that

an overwhelming of

jurors were white

(81%)
Noye, Liptak, A -New study of Trials --Racial Composition -Shows the

Study of the Racially revealed that potential of the Juries appears Likelihood of Black

Disparate Use of jurors who were black to make the ult. Jurors being struck

Peremptory were more likely to Difference in the case Shows that most of

Challenges by the get struck down from -Age the time if the jury

Caddo Parish District juries, -Marriage or Not consists mostly of

Attorney’s office, prosecutors strike -Religious African Americans

August 2015 down black jurors -Financial Status they will most likely

46% of the time, but -Military in or not see the defendant is

only 15% of other Appearance. (These innocent.

juries are the type of - Whites are more

-No Defendants were reasons, Lawyers use severe on their

Acquitted when less when they strike a punishments than

than 2 Black Jurors black juror or any Blacks are, Whites

were part of the trial juror) think defendants are

-However 19% of the automatically guilty

Defendants were

acquitted when there

were more than 5

black jurors available.

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