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March 06, 2017

SCOTUS Overturns Guilty Verdict Because of Racist Ex-Cop Juror

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The Supreme Court ordered Colorado to reconsider a guilty verdict because one juror involved in the trial had openly expressed “anti-Hispanic bias.” Justices voted 5-3 on Monday to reverse and remand the decision back to the state’s court system. “It must become the heritage of our Nation to rise above racial classifications that are so inconsistent with our commitment to the equal dignity of all persons,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority. In 2007, Miguel Angel Pena-Rodriguez was convicted of unlawful sexual contact and…

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