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U.S. Supreme Court says jury strikes violated defendant's rights

A defendant made a sufficient showing that a state court erred in finding he had not demonstrated an improper exercise of peremptory challenges to keep blacks off the jury that convicted him of capital murder, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. In 1985, the defendant and his accomplices bound and gagged two hotel employees, whom ...

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