Foster V. Chatman Case Study

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In consideration of Batson violations, I would imagine that not only African Americans have low confidence in the Courts and Criminal Justice System; I would assume that any person of a minority race would have these types of feelings. However, I certainly understand that with the overrepresentation of African Americans that come into contact with the Criminal Justice System, there would be ill feelings toward the fairness of their jury selection process. So, I personally do not believe that there are enough safeguards in place to ensure the fairness of a jury selection during a trial. For example, when reading the Foster v. Chatman case, Foster was convicted of killing Queen Madge White. When the jury selection began there was already a disadvantage in relation to proportionality due to the fact that there were only minimal African American potential juror’s available for selection. Once the actual selection process started, one was released due to having a connection to Foster, leaving only four potential selections that were African American. …show more content…
So, from this point on, the jury selection was not a good mix of race. I cannot make any speculations on age, sex, or any other demographics due to that information not being provided. However, this jury may have been selected for a reason. This case occurred in Georgia during a time where racism was an issue, so based on speculation; this may have been the intention when the jury was selected. So, this is not the only case within our nation’s history where this type of action has been
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