Dec. 26, 2025
Alameda County jury bias scandal returns in death row appeal
Decades after evidence emerged that Alameda County prosecutors systematically excluded Black and Jewish jurors from capital cases, a new appeal challenges a 1989 murder conviction and raises questions about judicial impartiality and ongoing resistance to changes.
Criminal defense lawyers couldn't prove it, but rumors flew for decades rumors that Alameda County prosecutors secretly stacked capital juries to win convictions and send men to death row.
The tales proved to be true. Now another chapter in the scandal is playing out in a court challenge to a 1989 serial killer's conviction and death sentence. The defense argues in an appeal that a prosecutor illicitly removed from the jury pool seven of nine Black candidates and all six ...
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