Court declines to hear death-row inmate’s claim of juror’s racial bias, prompting dissent from liberal justices
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 18, 2022
The state court, Sotomayor observed, never addressed Love’s contention that he had been deprived of his constitutional right to an impartial jury. Although that was done in Love’s case, she noted, it doesn’t help “if courts do not even consider claims of racial bias that litigants bring forward.
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