Race and the Georgia Courts: Implications of the Georgia Public Trust and Confidence Survey for Batson v. Kentucky and its Progeny

Authors

• George W. Dougherty, Piedmont College Dept. of Public Administration and Political Science
• Randy Beck, University of Georgia School of LawFollow
• Mark D. Bradbury, University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute of Government

Georgia Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2003), pp. 1021-1037

Abstract

Put simply, there is a perception among many Georgians that the court system treats minorities worse than whites. This Essay considers implications of the Georgia findings for a line of United States Supreme Court decisions designed to prevent racial discrimination by trial lawyers in the selection of trial juries.

Repository Citation

George W. Dougherty, Randy Beck, and Mark D. Bradbury, Race and the Georgia Courts: Implications of the Georgia Public Trust and Confidence Survey for Batson v. Kentucky and its Progeny (2003),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/174