“The history is relevant. It is a history of a desire for an all-white jury,” she said. In the sixth trial, like those before, the prosecutor took a different approach with whites and blacks, she said. He peppered potential black jurors with numerous questions in an effort to find a nonracial reason to exclude them, but accepted potential white jurors after only asking a question or two, she said.
Source: Los Angeles Times March 20, 2019 17:03 UTC