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Supreme Court sides with death row inmate in race discrimination case

WASHINGTON DC — The Supreme Court ruled Monday morning in favor of a death row inmate in a case concerning race discrimination in jury selection. Timothy ...
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WASHINGTON DC — The Supreme Court ruled Monday morning in favor of a death row inmate in a case concerning race discrimination in jury selection.

Timothy Tyrone Foster, who is African American, is on death row in Georgia for the 1987 murder of an elderly white woman.

The jury that convicted him was all white. Twenty years after his sentence his attorneys obtained notes the prosecution team took while it was engaged in picking a jury.

The decision comes as a welcome relief to critics who say racial discrimination in jury selection persists across the country some 30 years after the Supreme Court ruled potential jurors cannot be struck because of race.

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