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Originally Posted by joethiesmanfan
....Facing 5 years knowing the jury they select will be lily white, and you gonna be getting the max. He trying to stay outta jail.
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Nice scenario, now we return to reality and 2010.
If this guy wound up with a "lily white" jury in Manning, SC (35% white) or Columbia, SC (49% white), depending on the jurisdiction for the charge, then his attorney should be prosecuted. There would be plenty of justification to declare a mistrial or an appeal would certainly win.
Do you understand how juries are selected in a criminal trial?
SC Judicial Department
You're scenario is also making the assumption that even if the jury was "lily white", a white person is going to automatically convict a black person because of racism. I don't live in SC but I do work with the some of the Navy civilians in the Charleston area (the folks I work with down there happen to be white) and none appear to be racists. I find that premise of your scenario to be offensive and racist.