There is abundant evidence that jury bias exacerbates racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes, including false convictions, application of the death penalty, and drug convictions. Recent research shows that the closer whites live to blacks, the more positive their views of the police are—which did not augur well for an indictment in a place like Saint Louis County. White jurors are much more likely to side with police, regardless of the race of the officer and the person killed.
Interesting, so the concept of "an expedient, fair, and impartial trial with a jury of their peers" is kind of a fallacy here. Since the makeup of juries is so biased, the cases are basically decided before an argument is made. I wonder how biased juries are more generally and how better or worse it is than judge bias nationally.
