Entries tagged with “John Johnson III”
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Jan 23, 2024
United States Supreme Court Asked to Consider Another Case of Racially Biased Prosecutorial Jury Strikes
On December 18, 2023, attorneys for Warren King, an intellectually disabled black man sentenced to death in Georgia in 1998, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, asking the Court to review the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling denying Mr. King relief. The petition states that“abundant evidence demonstrates that the prosecutor discriminated against Black and female jurors in selecting [Mr.] King’s jury,” which…