U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday criticized Georgia prosecutors who used race as a factor in striking all potential black jurors from the 1987 murder trial of a black defendant.
The defendant, Timothy Foster, was a teenager when he was charged and convicted of killing a white retired schoolteacher named Queen White. Foster’s trial took place soon after the high court issued Batson v. Kentucky, which banned purposeful exclusion of potential jurors on the basis of race but allowed prosecutors to use “race-neutral” reasons for their peremptory strikes.
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