Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates November 2016 No. 8 Vol. 19
Indiana, Alabama, Arkansas, et al., Amici Curiae

Racism in the Jury Room

Juror Bias and the Right to a Fair Trial

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Indiana, Alabama, Arkansas, et al., Amici Curiae

Thomas M. Fisher, Counsel of Record

Indiana, Alabama, and Arkansas are joined in this brief by nine other States. Thomas M. Fisher has served as Indiana’s solicitor general since July 2005. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 6, 2016. As this Court explained a century ago, once verdicts “can be attacked and set aside on the testimony of those who took part in their publication … all verdicts could be, and many would be, followed by an inquiry in the hope of discovering something which might invalidate the finding.” — McDonald v….

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