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“Nicest Guy” Gets Break

U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore has overturned the capital-murder conviction of Mariano Rosales, ruling 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…

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