Why don?t jurors trust the police?

Published September 10, 2008 4:00am ET



Earlier this week, Baltimore State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy talked about that letter she sent to Abell Foundation’s Robert Embry back in March.

The angry missive was about a study — yet to be released publicly — commissioned by the foundation that recommended a “regional jury pool” for Baltimore City, the better to weed out those city jurors supposedly too cognitively challenged to convict defendants at the rate defendants are convicted in Baltimore, Howard and Anne Arundel counties.

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