Juries
O.J. Simpson Appeal to Target Jury Selection
Posted Oct 6, 2008, 05:43 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
O.J. Simpson, convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery late Friday, has some strong arguments for his planned appeal, according to his lawyer.
Yale Galanter told the Associated Press that his client is being isolated from other prisoners for his own safety in a county jail where he will be held until his Dec. 5 sentencing in a Las Vegas courtroom.
Galanter says one issue is the seating of a jury that included no blacks and members who believed Simpson should have been convicted in his 1995 trial for murdering his wife. Simpson’s lawyers had fought to keep two black women on the panel and charged that… Continue reading...
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