Most of those members were either black men, or women who recounted incidents involving someone they knew who had been profiled or treated badly by the police. In the end, half of the 12 jurors chosen to decide Mr. Lewis’s fate were white, including four men. There are no black men on the jury. The jury, like the first panel, will have to determine Mr. Lewis’s guilt or innocence based almost entirely on his statements to the police and the DNA evidence. There are no witnesses to the murder, and no other scientific evidence like fingerprints, hair or blood.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2019 15:56 UTC