Foreword
In February 2010, Miguel Angel Peña-Rodriguez, a Mexican immigrant who worked at a racetrack in Colorado, was convicted of multiple counts of unlawful sexual contact and harassment and sentenced to two years of probation. A jury had found him guilty of entering a women’s bathroom at the track and groping two underage girls. The teenagers, who also lived on the property, recognized Peña-Rodriguez and were able to identify him for police later that evening. After the trial was concluded, two jurors told Peña-Rodriguez’s lawyer that another juror had said derogatory things about Hispanic men and their sexual proclivities during the…
