[trumandogz]

2000: 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns conviction because black people were excluded from the 1961 grand jury.

Sad, but true....

[Poodlebrain]

What bothers me about the fourth trial is that Rideau received three trials, all resulting in convictions, and then on another appeal his original indictment is challenged. Why wasn't this matter reviewed or considered to have been precluded as a matter of law when the first re-trial occurred? Shouldn't a new indictment have been required which would have made the original indictment moot?

[Chapita]

Things would have been different for OJ, had one black been replaced on his jury.

Sad but true!