Sunny Hostin: "You Can't Just Strike Someone off jury duty because they're black"

I bet she would be just fine with striking someone off a jury for being White however

That's not why they were struck you silly bitch.

Is this the bitch who’s ancestors were slave owners?

That's not why they were struck off the jury.

She, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Benjamin Crump, Sonia Sotomayor, and a couple of mutts on this board prove that you don't have to be very smart in order to pass the bar exam.

I'd be willing to bet that the CPA exam is more difficult. I've never met a stupid CPA.

She says this not having any clue how many black people showed up for jury duty and how many were actually in the pool of selectees. She has probably never answered a summons before.

The courts give defense attorneys and prosecutors alike pretty broad range in the striking of potential jurors.

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but I think you probably can strike teachers and anyone who says they wouldn’t convict.

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If someone says they’d have a hard time convicting they go off for cause. That apparently happened with several blacks during jury selection. Didn’t even have to burn a strike. When striking you just have to be able to articulate a race neutral reason.

You can be black and have certain biases. You question the bias and strike based on that. Questioning jurors based on things they believe, their background, family, etc, weeds out that bias. If you are the prosecution, you don't want jurors who have criminals in their family. Conversely, the defense sees it differently.