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Colorado Supreme Court reaches consensus on stalled racial bias rule, with heavy revisions
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The Colorado Supreme Court notified a small group of lawyers and judges last week that it has tentatively agreed on a new rule addressing racial bias in jury selection for criminal trials, breaking its yearslong silence on the proposed reform. Most prominently, the court’s proposed path forward would no longer designate certain justifications for removing…
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Is Colorado’s Supreme Court about to kill implicit bias reform?
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Last year, the Colorado Supreme Court indicated it would first decide a handful of pending cases alleging racial bias in jury selection before it took action on a proposal that would make it more difficult for prosecutors to remove jurors of color for reasons that, while not explicitly racial, nonetheless correlate to race. On Monday,…
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Judicial committee secretly debates proposal to address racial bias in jury selection
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A committee of the Colorado Supreme Court met behind closed doors on Friday to discuss two proposals for curtailing the exclusion of people of color from juries based on explicit or implicit racial bias. The renewed effort comes months after legislation to accomplish the same goal died in the legislature in the wake of opposition…
