In a ruling Friday that flew under the radar until today, US District Judge Vanessa Gilmore overturned the capital-murder conviction of Mariano Rosales, because Harris County prosecutors had improperly rejected minorities from the jury pool.The technical term for the tossing-minority-jurors claim is a Batson challenge, after the 1986 case where the precedent was set.And when we saw the NAACP announcement about Gilmore's decision, our first reaction was "Man, we thought Harris County prosecutors
