Supreme Court to Hear Case on Juror Racial Bias

Things got ugly during jury deliberations in a 2010 sexual assault trial in Colorado. “I think he did it because he’s Mexican, and Mexican men take whatever they want,” a juror said of the defendant. The juror, identified in court papers as H. C., was a former law enforcement officer. After the trial was over, two other jurors submitted sworn statements describing what he had said during deliberations. “He said that where he used to patrol, nine times out of 10 Mexican men were guilty of being aggressive toward women and…READ MORE