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ANDREW DYS
AUGUST 26, 2016 4:12 PM
... She walked into the Moss Justice Center in York, after she was summoned for jury service, wearing a T-shirt with not just the Confederate flag on the front, but surrounded by a common saying among heritage not hate types: If this flag offends you, you need a history lesson ...
When a judge was qualifying jurors for the week of court, many noticed which likely was the reason she wore it. The woman was asked about the shirt by the judge but said she could be fair and impartial, court officials said ...
Abusaft, who said he was the only person of color among the trial participants, including his client, made a motion that the woman be struck from possibly serving for cause. Abusaft said his reasoning, his cause, was even though the woman said she could be fair and impartial, the shirt with the flag, and the saying on it, should disqualify her ...
But the judge ruled that the woman had stated that she could be fair and impartial, and did not excuse the woman from the potential jury panel ...
http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andrew-dys/article98135217.html
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)she could be impartial.
relayerbob
(6,508 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That's some bullshit, if you ask me.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)I've been on a jury selection where a judge publicly scolded a potential juror for showing up in jeans yet, at a different one, a juror appeared wearing cargo shorts with a polo and nothing was said.
More likely though is she was trying to get out of jury duty.
Dale Neiburg
(694 posts)In the summons we were instructed to wear "business casual." Most of us did. One guy showed up in cut-off shorts and a tie-dyed tee shirt, probably wanting to avoid serving.
Upshot: he wound up being the jury foreman.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Why hand the defense an appeal is beyond me.