Prosecutor dramatically suggests Georgia could allow retrial in case of Timothy Foster over notes that reveal striking off of black jurors from sentencing juryA lawyer for the prosecution came to the rescue of a prisoner on death row on Monday in a dramatic twist to a US supreme court case described as one of the most egregious cases of courtroom race discrimination seen in decades.
Timothy Foster,a black teenager who confessed to the murder of a white woman in Atlanta in 1986, is appealing his death sentence after legal notes subsequently emerged that revealed how all the black jurors at his sentencing were singled out and excluded from the jury. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com