KY appeals court tosses Black man’s conviction after prosecutors tossed Black jurors
A Fayette Circuit Court deprived a homeless Black man of a fair trial in 2018 by letting prosecutors strike two Black men from the jury without adequately questioning her reasons, as the law requires, the Judge John Reynolds did a “gravely insufficient” job of protecting Darryl Keith Baker’s civil rights during jury selection, the Court of Appeals said. The assistant commonwealth’s attorney objected to the two Black men because one of them “gave off bad body language” and looked “disgruntled,” while the other had a father who was prosecuted ...
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