Call me a racist, but Connecticut does not do enough to assure that criminal defendants face a jury of their peers.

I’ve just finished jury selection in a murder case in Norwich. We finally picked a panel after six full days. One hundred and fifteen men and women sat through some portion of voir dire. As near as I can tell, there was not a black man among them. My client, charged with murder, is African American. What am I to tell him about a jury of his peers?