{"id":4212,"date":"2016-03-17T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T23:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2016-03-27T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T23:51:26","slug":"appeals-court-rules-on-jury-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/03\/17\/appeals-court-rules-on-jury-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Rules On Jury Dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1015\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2015\/10\/01\/man-indicted-for-murder-of-infant\/gavel-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gavel.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"gavel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gavel.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gavel.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"gavel\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1015\" \/><br \/>\nAn appeals court has ordered a Jefferson County circuit judge to stop dismissing jury panels he believes aren&#8217;t reflective of the community&#8217;s diversity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Multiple media outlets report that prosecutors objected to Judge Olu Stevens&#8217; February 9 decision to agree with a black defendant&#8217;s public defender&#8217;s request and dismiss a jury panel of 41 that included only three African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>In a Court of Appeals opinion Wednesday, Judge Irv Maze told Stevens the practice violates state law.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that there wasn&#8217;t enough evidence to show that there was systematic exclusion. The law requires a jury pool to represent a cross-section of the community, but the jury panel itself isn&#8217;t required to reflect the community.<\/p>\n<p>A similar case in which Stevens dismissed a jury panel is pending before the state Supreme Court.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appeals court has ordered a Jefferson County circuit judge to stop dismissing jury panels he believes aren&#8217;t reflective of the community&#8217;s diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-15W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-05 01:37:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gavel.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions\/4213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}