Entries tagged with “Warren King”
Policy Issues
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Mar 28, 2024
OP-ED: Black Woman Denied Opportunity to Serve as a Juror in Georgia Capital Trial Cites Concerns About Racial Bias
In a March 26, 2024, op-ed published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Patricia McTier, a Georgia nurse, recounts her experience being removed from a jury pool in 1998 for what she calls a “questionable reason” related to her race. Born and raised in Appling County, Georgia, Ms. McTier grew up in the Jim Crow era and writes that she “enter[ed] adulthood during a time of great social change,” where she grew to “cherish our American system of justice and the Constitution that endows…
Policy Issues
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Feb 20, 2024
Op-Ed: Law Professor Stephen Bright Encourages SCOTUS to Review “Egregious Racial Discrimination” in Georgia Death Row Prisoner’s Case
In a February 14, 2024 op-ed published in the Washington Post, the longtime defense lawyer, former director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, and law professor Stephen Bright highlights the continued illegal exclusion of Black jurors in violation of Batson v. Kennedy (1986). The op-ed titled, “Struck from a jury for being Black? It still happens all too often,” uses the case of Georgia death-sentenced prisoner Warren King, whose petition the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to review on…
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Race
,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 violates the Equal Protection…