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SJC Opinion Reverses Murder Conviction After Judge Fails To Adequately Investigate Possible Racial Bias On Jury

The nineteenth-century French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville famously described the jury in the United States as “a free school which is always open and in which each juror learns his rights,” making it not only “the most energetic means of making the people rule,” but also “the most efficacious means…