Only one Black juror was selected for the racially-charged trial involving three White men accused of killing 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery
The jury, consisting of 11 White members and one Black member, was selected Wednesday evening after a two-and-a-half-week selection process that ended with prosecutors for the state accusing defense attorneys of disproportionately striking qualified Black jurors and basing some of their strikes on race.
Finding people to sit on the panel that will deliver the verdicts was a challenging and lengthy process that the judge himself seemed to grow frustrated with last month. From the roughly 1,000 people who were summoned as part of the jury selection pool, fewer than half turned up.
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