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  • Jesse Jackson's Odd Complaint: Trayvon Martin Denied Jury of His Peers

    07/14/2013 5:17:53 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 88 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Appearing on MSNBC this morning, Jesse Jackson condemned the Zimmerman verdict as a "tremendous miscarriage of justice." It is a mark of Jackson's misconception of just what constitutes justice that chief among his complaints was that Trayvon Martin was denied a jury of his peers because there were no African-Americans or men on it. But—as Jackson is apparently unaware—the Constitution provides that it is the accused, not the possible victim, who is entitled to an impartial jury [in fact the Constitution nowhere speaks of a jury of peers]. View the video here.