TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Apr 5, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it will hear a Colorado case challenging whether jurors' claims of racially charged comments by another juror can overcome the need for secrecy in jury deliberations, The Associated Press reports. The appeal is from a Hispanic man who claimed he did not have a fair trial because a juror made offensive comments about Mexicans. Attorneys were told about the comment after the jury convicted the man of sexually harassing two women in a bathroom.