Judges and Judiciary
Jul. 29, 2015
'Where are you from?' A judge's dilemma
Judges are sometimes ill-equipped to make judgments as to the racial/ethnic make-up of the jurors on a panel. By Katherine Mader
Gazing at a recent group of prospective jurors sitting anxiously in the jury box,
I was puzzled and a bit anxious myself. The man facing murder charges was from Kenya,
classified as "African-American" by the U.S. census. But his experiences differ vastly
from African-American jurors whose ancestors were enslaved in this country. Yet, according
to case law, he's "Afri...
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