The U.S. Supreme Court Monday cleared the way
for a new trial for a Georgia man convicted of murder and sentenced to
death by an all-white jury, finding that prosecutors intentionally kept
blacks off the jury.
"Prosecutors were motivated in substantial part
by race," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, who was joined in the
opinion by all but one of the justices. In his dissent, Clarence Thomas,
the court's only African-American member, said the court did not have
jurisdiction to take up the case.
The jury was chosen for the death penalty trial of Timothy Tyrone
Foster, who was 18 when he was charged with sexually molesting and
killing a 79-year-old widow in Rome, Georgia in 1986. She was white.
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Source: NBC News
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