Letters,
Criminal
Aug. 4, 2020
Story on peremptory challenge bill was inaccurate, unbalanced
In giving a unilateral voice to those who insist the bill is “premature,” the article is tone deaf — as are many of the bill’s opponents — to the Legislature’s historic opportunity to begin to rectify the exclusion of Black and Latinx citizens from jury service in California and the urgent need for such reform.
AJ Kutchins
Supervising Deputy
Office of the State Public Defender
Elisabeth Semel
Clinical Professor of Law; Director Death Penalty Clinic
UC Berkeley School of Law
Brendon D. Woods
Public Defender
Alameda County Public Defender's Office
Brendon is past president of the California Public Defenders Association.
We write in response to the Daily Journal's July 30 article, regarding Assembly Bill 3070 -- "Bill to limit challenges gets amendments and calls for delay" -- which was both inaccurate and unbalanced.
The article's main point is that Legislature should stand down so that the California Supreme Court's "...
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