NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and American Civil Liberties Union, Amici Curiae
John Paul Schnapper-Casteras, Counsel of Record
The NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund is the litigation arm of the civil rights group. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is a membership organization representing the interests of trial attorneys. The American Civil Liberties Union is nonprofit group protecting constitutional rights and liberties. John Paul Schnapper-Casteras is the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s special counsel for appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2016. This case involves the extreme and explicit injection of racial prejudice into a jury’s deliberative…
