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Originally Posted by icecube
Around a third of the population around the North Battleford area is indigenous. The verdict came from an all white jury. The defence used a peremptory challenge on every single visibly indigenous looking person during jury selection.
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Is this actually true? That it was an all white dury?
I ask because all I could find was this where there were an initial pool of 750 people summoned as potential jurors.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskat...shie-1.4504633
Obviously probably much lower than that number would probably have attended and according to the article Lawyers can only use a peremptory challenge up to a maximum of 12 times.
Begs the question how would you finish up with an all white jury with a maximum of twelve challenges?