State v. Finney

I dissent. There should be no injection of race into jury deliberations and the foreperson in this case had her will overcome by manifestations and accusations of racial prejudice. There can be no place in our system of American Jurisprudence for arriving at a verdict of either innocence or guilt by the intimidation of a juror through appeal of racial prejudice. This jury room became a room of bigotry, bias, and terror. This verdict was infected by racial considerations. Such cannot be in a free society. The heart of the jury process, impartial deliberation, was destroyed. It was an…