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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
We can talk about why there weren't natives on the jury when you have a pool of 750 and each side has 12 strikes. Is there a transcript or record of the jury selection and why people were struck from the jury pool. Did someone stack it so the first 100 people in the jury list were all whites?
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I was summoned for jury selection last year.
If I recall correctly . . . . .
In the selection process, you’re assigned a number.
A group of, say, 10 numbers, is randomly drawn.
People matching those numbers are called forward and the defence or crown has an opportunity to reject you for no specified reason, or accept you. They can also ask you a question or two. A number of people were rejected without comment by both sides.
Groups of randomly drawn numbers continue to be called until 12 jurors are approved. Plus an alternate or two I think.
But there’s no opportunity to stack the first 100 selections by race.
From what I saw in the Calgary process, there were plenty of visible minorities in the crowd, including a gentleman beside me who arrived late and relied on me to explain to him what was happening (being a know-it-all, I was happy to oblige).
It was a trial for cocaine trafficking. The defendant was on hand and was a visible minority.