Question 1

In 1965, the Court ruled in _______v. Alabama that the prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges to strike all six African Americans in the jury pool did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

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Question 2

Discuss the various techniques described in the text for increasing the racial diversity of the jury pool.

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Question 3

The requirement t hat the jury should be drawn from a representative cross-section of the community applies only to the selection of the jury __________ , not to the selection of individual jurors for a particular case.

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Question 4

A controversial approach to increasing racial diversity in jury pools is termed "race __________ jury selection."

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Question 5

Although the percentages of African Americans, Hispanics, and whites who were  exonerated for all crimes were similar to the percentages of each group incarcerated in state prisons, this was not the case for prisoners convicted of __________ .

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Question 6

Explain what a peremptory challenge is and why it is legal to use such challenges in a racially discriminatory manner.

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Question 7

Once the defendant makes a __________ case of racial discrimination, the burden shifts to the state to provide a racially neutral explanation for excluding African American jurors.

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Question 8

Explain the controversy regarding race-conscious jury selection.

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Question 9

As the justices stated in Avery v. Georgia , "The State may not draw up its jury lists pursuant to neutral procedures but then resort to __________at other stages in the selection process."

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Question 10

Explain why, 21 years after Swain , the U.S. Supreme Court rejected its own ruling regarding systematic exclusion with its holding in Batson v. Kentucky (1986).

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Question 11

Discuss the various ploys some states have used to circumvent the requirement of racial neutrality in the selection of jury pools.

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