And as Mr Greenstein points out, Mr Vitter's amendment would kick "poor elderly African Americans convicted of a single crime decades ago by segregated Southern juries" off the food-stamp rolls.A similar food-stamp ban exists for people convicted of certain drug offences, unless individual states opt out of that ban.
Troy was convicted by a jury of murdering an off-duty police officer in Savannah in 1989 and sentenced to death.
In 1992, the officers accused of assaulting King were acquitted by a suburban jury, setting off fearsome riots in which 54 people were killed.
Not a chance, and our nervous cultural elite has nothing to fear, for the Booker jury shrugged off the opportunity to stage a reading revolution by ultimately retreating to the cosy "literary" safe bet.
The disparity between the police's story and the victim's family's, the police harassment Dowell endured before his murder, the jury letting off Dowell's killer, even the reports that Dowell had his hands raised while he was gunned down, eerily echo the police killings today that have led to the explosion of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Most often this is done to impress the client, the judge or jury to ward off the challenges such as cross-examination by exaggerating the qualifications.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that prosecutors told a six-person jury on Monday that cutting off water to Terrill Thomas' cell was "highly irregular and contrary to standard operating procedure in the jail".
There is also a greater inclination, wrong-headed perhaps, by those of us who serve as judge and jury to lump off-court misdeeds with on-court performance.
LONDON (Reuters) — The former UBS trader Kweku M. Adoboli wept on Friday as he told a jury that his "off-book" trading was done for the benefit of the bank that meant everything to him.
The senator is not a powerful orator, but he does well in small groups, where he can address the audience almost as if they were a jury, speaking off the cuff in simple language and ticking off points on his fingers.
