Quote Originally Posted by corktownyuppie View Post
Like I said, I don't know the answers. But I think it's totally reasonable to discuss whether a jury consisting of 1 person who shares the defendant's race is likely to be or not to be a representative jury of one's peers.
If I was charged with a crime in the city of Detroit, I would expect that eleven or twelve of the jurors would be black. If I was charged with a crime in Da Yoopee, I would expect eleven or twelve of the jurors to be white. These are the "peers" of the community. We don't tailor the jury to the race of the defendant.