The 4-3 ruling marks the first time in state history, according to legal authorities, that a criminal conviction was invalidated because of a prosecutor's unlawful exclusion of a Black juror through a process developed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina's Supreme Court overturned the robbery conviction of a Black man on Friday, determining that prosecutors wrongly blocked a potential juror from his trial based on racial bias.
North Carolina’s Supreme Court has overturned the robbery conviction of a man because prosecutors had wrongly blocked a potential juror from his trial based on racial bias