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Junking the Jurors
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2001
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2001, page 28
by Mumia Abu Jamal
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Juries,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Penalty.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed&"
U.S. Constitution, 6 th Amendment
It has been almost two decades since a Philadelphia …
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