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impartial jury of his peers, as implemented in Batson, still work, and they seem to work effectively. In 1879, the U.S. Supreme Court, in discussing the composition of a jury, asked a question that echoed for 140 years:”how can it be maintained that compelling a colored man to submit to a trial for his life by a jury drawn from a panel from which the State has expressly excluded every man of his race, because of color alone, however well qualified in other respects, is not a denial to him of equal legal protection?”93 The answer has been and always will be the same. Never.
93. Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303, 309 (1879).