"Peers" is meant in contrast to a juror class, professional or aristocratic jurors who hear all cases in a given jurisdiction. It does not mean "people in my racial, gender, income demographic."

Just with him I see a real potential problem brewing since in his first trial the race of the jury was overwhelmingly black and he got off. This time they will be white and IF he gets convicted, it will bring up a bunch of racial crap that we, as a nation, have been trying to decrease. I admit I am overly sensitive to this issue, but the makeup of this jury still rankles me.

Either the original article is misstating the case, or the jury is lopsided. I suspect that it should have read "all non-black jury".

According to The Peoples of Las Vegas the black population stands at just 8.3% but the Hispanics make up 38.5%.

Can you explain why it rankles you and who you are rankled with? Or is this just a gut feeling?

Gonna Get Me a Shotgun
Performed by Garrett Morris on 24 Jan 1976 SNL

I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
When I kill all the whities I see, then whitey he won't bother me,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.

Just that the jury is/ was described as "all white" - no mention of any other race, color, creed...

That made me lol :)

Well....he was guilty the first time, I think.

What a memory!

[Buford T. Justice]"The Germans ain't got nothin' to do with it!"[/Buford T. Justice]

Do I see a problem with this?

No.

It was probably pretty damn difficult to find *anyone* who didn't claim to be overexposed to his murder trial, or to the subsequent civil suit (which succeeded, BTW, so somebody somewhere thought he killed his wife and her boyfriend). The main criteria for selecting a jury for this case was that they didn't have a preformed opinion about him being a criminal. That sure would have left me out.

It might not be too big a stretch to imagine that it was difficult to find an African American who either was neutral or who didn't think that this was just one more case of Whitey keeping the brother down.

Since when is OJ "the brother"? He is about as black as Bryant Gumbel.

xtc "house parties" with a bunch of white folks don't count, I concur.
:D

Dallas Cowboys?

I hear they were all tourists from the deep South.:3_eyes: