LA Supreme Court Decision to Impact Selection of Grand Juries

The Times-Picayune reports on a Louisiana Supreme Court decision handed down last week that rules local or special laws concerning the criminal justice system unconstitutional. The decision was the result of numerous challenges raised against New Orleans' grand jury selection system, which provides for judges to select grand juries. The article details how the rule is an artifact of the Jim Crow laws, but how race was not considered in the Supreme Court's decision.

Posted by AJR at July 7, 2003 07:24 AM