(Supreme) Court Will Hear Louisiana Death Case

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Source: Associated Press

Court Will Hear Louisiana Death Case

The Associated Press
Monday, June 25, 2007; 12:08 PM

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review
whether race played a role in the selection of an all-white
jury that imposed a death sentence on a black man in Louisiana.

Allen Snyder was convicted in 1996 of stabbing his estranged
wife 15 times and killing a man with whom she was talking.

The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that race had no part in the
prosecutor's decisions involving black potential jurors.

Dissenting justices said the prosecutor's prejudice was shown
by two comparisons he made between Snyder's case and that
of O.J. Simpson, who had been acquitted in 1995 of killing his
ex-wife and a friend of hers.

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