Another Ex-DA Backs Claim of Bias Against Jews

More attorneys have come forward to say that it was an "old and comfortable practice" for Alameda County prosecutors to weed Jews and other groups off death penalty juries in the 1980s, according to court papers filed Friday by a death row inmate's lawyers. In an interview with a defense lawyer, former Oakland prosecutor Alexander Selvin purportedly said that his colleagues tended not to want black women or Jews on their capital juries.

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