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Dallas Conviction Overturned Due to Jury Exclusion

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The Dallas County District Attorney Office's long-ago practice of excluding minorities from juries is the cause of a new conviction reversal by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.  The court's opinion in Reed v. Quarterman is here, in Adobe .pdf format."Conviction tossed in '78 flight attendant murder," is the report in today's Dallas Morning News by Steve McGonigle, Diane Jennings, and Jennifer Emily. A ruling of racist jury selection tactics by Dallas County prosecutors moved a white inmate a giant step closer to a new trial after almost 30 years on Texas death row. A three-judge federal appeals court panel in New Orleans on Monday reversed Jonathan Bruce Reed's capital murder conviction because prosecutors excluded blacks from the jury that found him guilty of murdering Braniff Airlines flight attendant Wanda Jean Wadle in 1978...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).