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Letters,
Criminal

Jun. 26, 2020

Column attacking Berkeley study on peremptory challenges is dismaying

I am writing in regard to the column by Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee attacking both Berkeley Law’s landmark report “Whitewashing the Jury Box” and Assembly Bill 3070, the current legislative effort to eliminate the discriminatory exclusion of African-Americans and other people of color from California juries.

AJ Kutchins

Supervising Deputy
Office of the State Public Defender

I am writing in regard to the column by Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee attacking both Berkeley Law's landmark report "Whitewashing the Jury Box" and Assembly Bill 3070, the current legislative effort to eliminate the discriminatory exclusion of African-Americans and other people of color from California juries. ["Flawed study by Berkeley Law...