NJ High Court Refines Methodology for Gauging Bias in Jury Selection
July 6th, 2009
In vacating defendant Oscar Osorio’s conviction on various drug counts, the New Jersey Supreme Court refined the methodology to be applied in determining whether the use of peremptory challenges to exclude jurors was motivated by racial bias. As the Court noted in State v. Osorio, the right to trial by a fair and impartial jury [...]
