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 Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang | | By: Robnoxious | Published: 07/15/2002 | | |  |
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Miami — A South Florida man who won a new trial on federal gun charges because his original jury had too many people with last names starting with the letter G has been acquitted.
A jury composed of six blacks, two whites and four Hispanics acquitted Roderick B. Carter this week. The 24-year-old Opa-Locka resident had been charged with possession of a handgun by a convicted felon.
U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan granted Carter a new trial after Carter's attorney argued that his client's Sixth Amendment right to a jury of his peers had been violated.
Federal jury pools in Miami are selected by dividing potential jurists alphabetically by the first letter of their last name and then selecting letters randomly. Anyone who draws a "G" would have a large number of Hispanic jurists.
Carter's attorney, David O. Markus, argued that because the jury pool was full of names such as Garcia, Gomez, Gonzalez and Gutierrez, Carter, who is black, could not have gotten a fair trial because that jury did not have a fair cross sample of the community.
The judge declared a mistrial in May.
There were 21 people with "G" names in the 38-member jury pool for Carter's first trial. Of the 21, 14 were of Hispanic origin. The original 12-person jury seated had seven "G"-surnamed Hispanic members.
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whether or not he was guitly is totally irrelvant doesn't it ?
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