1844 - Disparate Racial Sentencing in lieu of Jones v. Mississippi — Harvard Undergraduate Law Review
However, the fourth, fifth, and sixth appeals were on account of the prosecutor, Doug Evans, engaging in racial discrimination during jury selection by way of peremptory strikes. The State was “relentless” in its efforts to strike Black jurors from the prospective jury pool: in the third trial, it used all 15 of its peremptory strikes against prospective Black jurors, then 11 strikes in the fourth, and five out of six strikes in the sixth [9]. Although the Supreme Court had previously ruled i...
