Letters,
Criminal
Jul. 17, 2020
Thurgood Marshall had it right all along on peremptory challenges
In her June 29 column, UC Berkeley School of Law Clinical Professor Elizabeth Semel discussed the "straightforward and surprising" history of prosecutorial peremptory challenge abuse.
Eugene M. Hyman
Judge (Ret.)
San Clara County Superior Court
Santa Clara Univ Law School
Eugene is a retired judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, where for 20 years he presided over cases in the criminal, civil, probate, family and delinquency divisions of the court. He has presided over an adult domestic violence court and in 1999 presided over the first juvenile domestic violence and family violence court in the United States.
In her June 29 column "The pandemic, the killing of George Floyd and discriminatory jury selection," UC Berkeley School of Law Clinical Professor Elizabeth Semel discussed the "straightforward and surprising" history of prosecutorial peremptory challenge abuse.
Tracing the problem to its source, the ...
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