More than a decade after courts barred race-based peremptory challenges in criminal trials, a case in New Jersey is testing how far judges should go to ensure minority balance among jurors. The plaintiff claims his trial was unfairly slanted by the empanelment of an almost all-white jury. His lawyer says the defense attorney preyed on the jurors' prejudices and turned the case into a "mini-race war" by telling the jury of seven whites and one black "it is not a crime to be white."
October 29, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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More than a decade after federal and state courts barred race-basedperemptory challenges in criminal trials, a case in the AppellateDivision is testing how far judges should go to ensure minority balanceamong jurors in civil cases where race is an issue.
The plaintiff in Chamberlin v. Ciba-Geigy Corp., A-4787-97T1, which isbeing argued today to a three-judge panel in Hackensack, was no-causedin his Law Against Discrimination suit over an allegedly raciallymotivated layoff.
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