PEORIA
A Peoria man will get a new trial as an appellate court held this week that a prosecutor improperly struck one of the only Black jurors during jury selection.
Kendal Bradshaw was on trial for drug possession charges in 2017 and there were two Black men in the jury pool. A Peoria County prosecutor used allotted strikes to take both men out of the jury pool, basing it on the fact that they had contact with police and past convictions.
Only one of the strikes was challenged in Bradshaw s appeal, which held that prosecutors failed to prove the move wasn t due to their race.