More Perfect
More Perfect
WNYC Studios
Object Anyway
48 minutes Posted Jul 16, 2016 at 9:00 am.
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At the trial of James Batson in 1983, the prosecution eliminated all the black jurors from the jury pool. Batson objected, setting off a complicated discussion about jury selection that would make its way all the way up to the Supreme Court. On this episode of More Perfect, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to prevent race-based jury selection, but may have only made the problem worse.