Civil Rights
Jun. 16, 2005
Court Moves to Weed Out Race Issue in Jury Selection
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - In two important decisions Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that peremptory challenges cannot be exercised on the basis of race and made it easier for criminal defendants to show that prosecutors violated this basic rule.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Forum Column
By Erwin Chemerinsky
In two important decisions Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that peremptory challen...
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