Justice in America: The View from the Jury

Published: July 5, 2020, 12:42 a.m.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 128, in which I tell you what happened more than seven years ago, when I served as foreperson on a jury in Westchester County, NY, where an African-American male was charged with the felony of assaulting a police officer.\xa0 I published a blog post about this right after the trial was over back then, but didn't get a chance to provide the account in a podcast.\xa0 I thought, given the murder of George Floyd and the continuing protests about police mistreatment of African-Americans, the time was long since overdue.