Court declines to hear death-row inmate’s claim of juror’s racial bias, prompting dissent from liberal justices
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 18, 2022
Instead, Sotomayor explained, the state court ruled that even if the trial judge was wrong to allow Niesman to be seated on the jury, Love could not show that he was harmed by that mistake because the judge had given his lawyer two extra peremptory challenges – which he had already used by the time Niesman was called.
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