Jury racism dismissed by study
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Racially-mixed juries in England and Wales do not discriminate against non-white defendants, a study finds.
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In one example, a government study of voting-machine security issues was eventually canceled because conclusions by the panel of computer scientists were so negative.
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Every month, hundreds of people are summoned to courts across the nation for a public scolding. It's no surprise that only a handful show up &#151; after all, they are expert at that all-American custom: dodging jury duty.
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The jury in the trial of a terror suspect is urged to put aside any prejudice they may have when reaching a verdict.
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A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A state commission rebuked a northern California judge Wednesday for telling potential jurors that they should think of a phony reason not to serve if they couldn't acknowledge they were racially biased.    Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph O'Flaherty, in cases in 1999 and 2000 involving black and Iranian defendants, told prospective jurors they should come up with some other reason to get off the jury if they had racial biases and couldn't admit them...
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Showdown over judge who ruled for a white woman's use of a racial insult to a black colleague.
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The lead defense lawyer in the Scott Peterson murder trial, Mark Geragos, urged jurors on Tuesday to put aside any hatred for his client&#39;s boorish ways.
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An anti-racism body praises the conviction of a man for racial abuse despite the victim not coming forward.
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A jury returns a not proven verdict in the case of a driver accused of causing the deaths of three people.
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A report commissioned following the Caia Park riots in Wrexham says racism is still a problem in the county.
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) hearing on alleged racism in Zimbabwean cricket was scrapped in Harare on Thursday after the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) and the players who accuse its officials of racist behaviour
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A juror in Scott Peterson&#39;s double-murder trial was abruptly excused from her duties today after doing her own research and was replaced by an alternate.
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One of the jurors in Scott Peterson case was removed from the panel on Tuesday because of her own research on the case, where Peterson was charged in the double murder of his pregnant wife and her unborn son.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: An important US study shows us that the effects of ethnic diversity can be read as a challenge, rather than a threat.
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A judge on Tuesday dismissed charges against two Rider University officials in a case involving the drinking death of a fraternity pledge.
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Scott Peterson&#39;s lawyer urged jurors Tuesday to set aside &quot;sentiment, conjecture and passion&quot; and focus on reasonable interpretations of the circumstantial evidence