Volume 14, Number 1, 67-81, DOI: 10.1007/BF01079083

“... By a jury of his peers” — The issue of multi-racial juries in a poly-ethnic society

Michael Bohlander

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Abstract

Thus the conclusion should be to introduce a wider measure of participation by ethnic minorities in the jury service, in that every jury, regardless of the defendant's race or creed, ought to be composed of an appropriate mixture of racial groups according to the distribution of those quotas in the sampling area. The execution of the selection procedure should be left in the hands of the administration and not given to the individual judge in order to avoid any conceivable misuse of judicial powers and to keep the legal system free from yet another issue which might unnecessarily kindle racially founded suspicion, distrust or even hatred with those members of society whose protection a multi-racial jury is designed to serve in the first place.
I would like to thankMr. Geoffrey Mercer, Barrister, Exeter, for reading and commenting upon the first draft of the article, and for checking the English.

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