Prosecutors and defense attorneys seek to identify potential jurors who may be instinctively sympathetic or hostile to their side. Then try to find ways to exclude those potential jurors who may sympathize with the other side. People always apply their experiences, values, biases and beliefs to their decision making, which can hurt an innocent person on trial. Racism is common in jury selections too. Black defendants are significantly more likely than whites to be convicted on at least two crimes when there are no potential black jurors in the jury
Prosecutors and defense attorneys seek to identify potential jurors who may be instinctively sympathetic or hostile to their side. Then try to find ways to exclude those potential jurors who may sympathize with the other side. People always apply their experiences, values, biases and beliefs to their decision making, which can hurt an innocent person on trial. Racism is common in jury selections too. Black defendants are significantly more likely than whites to be convicted on at least two crimes when there are no potential black jurors in the jury