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03/19/08
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Justices toss Louisiana death sentence
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Supreme Court threw out the death sentence and conviction in a Louisiana murder case today, citing racial prejudice in the actions of a prosecutor who called the murder trial his "O.J. Simpson case" and kept African Americans off the jury.
By a 7-2 vote, the justices said state prosecutor Jim Williams improperly excluded African Americans from the jury that convicted Allen Snyder of killing his estranged wife's companion. Snyder is African American and the jurors were white. FDA identifies contaminant in...
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