Attorneys arguing that Alameda County, Calif., prosecutors routinely excluded Jews from death penalty juries have been asked a tricky question: Does it matter if the court record doesn’t establish that any of the excused jurors were actually Jewish?

The justices of the California Supreme Court posed that question in a death row inmate’s habeas case last month, and they’re going to want answers during oral arguments Wednesday in San Francisco.

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