When staff members of Atlanta’s Southern Center for Human Rights began tracking down African-American jurors eliminated from the 1987 jury that convicted an 18-year-old black teenager of a white woman’s murder, they were struck to find that, 30 years later, two of them still remembered the disdain they had faced.
One African-American man recalled that he went home and told his wife that none of the blacks in the jury pool were going to be chosen, said Katie Chamblee, one of several lawyers who worked on Georgia death row inmate Timothy Foster’s appeal. “He was devastated he wouldn’t be part of the process just because he was black.”
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