From the Las Vegas Sun: The Nevada Supreme Court has overturned the first-degree murder conviction of a Las Vegas man because a woman, whom prosecutors objected to because she was a Democrat, was improperly excluded from the jury.
A three-judge panel said “discriminatory jury selection” merited reversal of the verdict reached at the trial of Jermaine Brass, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Mark Gibbons said the prosecution’s reason for seeking the woman’s dismissal was that she was a registered Democrat and had “Democratic” views on law enforcement.
“Political affiliation is not a proper component as a basis for asserting a challenge to a juror,” Gibbons wrote.
Brass and his brother Ronnie Brass were convicted of the murder of Ernest Mitchell, who was shot 10 times outside his home in January 2009 over an argument about whether the brothers had stolen tire rims from the victim.
Ronnie Brass was stabbed to death while serving his sentence at the Ely State Prison. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/dec/27/justice-woman-wrongly-kept-jury-being-democrat/
This is a very bad ruling, not because of the Democrat issue, but they should have decided if the the thug was guilty or not.
But if I were a prosecutor, I would try and knock off every Democrat/liberal I could find- most tend to be sympathetic to thugs and well, they tend not be as smart as a...well, I won't go there because there are a couple of smart Democrats out there in the world. I haven't met one yet but I am sure there is an intelligent one out there, somewhere.
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