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Warren King, 48, was convicted of murder and other crimes in the 1994 shooting death of a Georgia convenience store clerk.
At his trial, the prosecutor used strikes to eliminate 87.5% of the eligible Black jurors.
A 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision established what is known as the “Batson’ rule, which prohibits the exclusion of prospective jurors based on their race.
The high court did not give a reason for declining to hear the case.
And, she noted that ”racial disparities in a prosecutor's exercise of peremptory strikes are highly probative of discriminatory intent" and the court made no mention of the fact that Johnson was about 10 times more likely to exclude a Black juror than a white juror. For those reasons, Jackson wrote, the 11th Circuit should have reviewed the merits of King's claims without giving deference to the state court's factual findings..
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President Joe Biden to bestow Medal of Honor on two Civil War heroes who helped hijack a train in confederacy.
U.S. Army Privates Philip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson were captured by Confederates and executed by hanging.
Biden is recognizing their courage 162 years later with the country's highest military decoration.
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The Rainbow Police of Finland participated in the Helsinki Pride March on 29 June.
The association was formally established in 2020 by current and former police officers as well as civilian workers at Finnish police departments.
It aims to promote equality for sexual and gender minorities within the police organisation and in all police activities, including during training, and bringing minority voices into conversation.
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Clashes between police and protesters disputing Mauritania's presidential election result kill 3.
Mobile internet access was blocked Tuesday as authorities vowed to arrest those behind the violence.
The protests broke out late Monday in parts of the country after President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani was declared winner.
His main rival, Biram Dah Abeid, a renowned anti-slavery activist, rejected the outcome and claimed the result was falsified.
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Leonard Peltier is serving two consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Florida.
The 79-year-old Indigenous rights activist has maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents almost 50 years ago.
He remains eligible for parole because he was convicted of his crime before 1987, when new sentencing guidelines went into effect.
An interim hearing has been set for 2026 with a full hearing set for June 2039.
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A new computational technique developed at The University of Texas at Austin is allowing scientists to look inside the planet.
The new method uses GPS data recorded during Japan's 2011 Tohoku earthquake to image the subsurface down to about 100 kilometers underground.
The method relies on the fact that Earth's crust is a hodge-podge of rocky material with differing elastic properties.
An advantage of the new method is that it can use measurements made by satellites like NASA's NISAR spacecraft.
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Gallup poll shows 23 percent of respondents identify as Democrats, the lowest level since records began in 2004.
The decline in the Democratic base corresponds with a higher number of respondents identifying as independents.
The U.S. has seen growing public dissatisfaction with both parties and in the wider political system.
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An updated state law took effect Monday, changing one that the GOP-controlled Legislature passed in 2023.
A federal judge blocked the law from taking effect last year.
A violation would have been punishable by up to a year in jail, a $3,000 fine or both.
The new version of the Mississippi law reflects that portion of the Voting Rights Act.
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Pride Month, observed in June, is a unique time to reflect for LGBTQ+ international students.
David Zhou, 25, is transgender and pursuing an education in the STEM field at an urban university in the Midwestern United States. Zhou is not open about his transgender identity to his family.
In China, transgender individuals must obtain consent from an “immediate family member” even for adults hoping to transition.
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Satnam Singh, an undocumented laborer from India, bled to death after his arm was cut off by a piece of farm equipment.
The landowner abandoned the bleeding worker and failed to call an ambulance, prosecutors said.
The death of Satnam.
The farm owner Antonello Lovato was arrested after prosecutors bumped up the original suspected crime of manslaughter.
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