The finding has broad and far-reaching implications regarding old convictions in the Alameda County justice system.
OAKLAND, CA – MAY 13: The Alameda County Superior Courthouse is seen from this drone view in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, May 13, 2021. In a ruling that calls into question numerous death penalty convictions in Alameda County, a federal judge found “strong evidence” that prosecutors there made a conscious effort to keep people off of juries based on their race and religion.
“These notes — especially when considered in conjunction with evidence presented in other cases — constitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically excluding Jewish and African American jurors in death penalty cases,” Chhabria wrote in his Monday ruling that lifts a protective order on the notes in question.
Price said the review could go back as far as 1977 and that the review will likely take “a long time.” She said that the potential misconduct goes well beyond “one or two prosecutors” who were employed during the 1990s.
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