I think I have thought of enough questions to effectively map the historical consciousness of potential jurors and their neo-Confederacy. I am going to summarize them here:
1. Are you a member of the League of the South, Council of Conservative Citizens, Sons of Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy or any other neo-Confederate organization?
2. Do you identify with the Confederacy or the Union?
3. Do you think it would be appropriate for public officials to praise the Confederacy?
4. Do you think states, counties, cities and other municipalities should adopt Confederate symbols in their logos, flags, seals, or other symbols they might adopt?
5. Do you think it would have been better if the Confederacy had succeeded in seceding?
It is a short list, but I think it would be effective in screening out people who are neo-Confederate or have Lost Cause attitudes from jury pools. I think all the questions can be reasons to exclude the juror with cause, and not merely a detection of bias. The Confederacy was a nation whose creation was attempted to perpetuate slavery and white supremacy.
These questions can also be asked of judges and should be asked of the judge selected to preside over a trial and if the judge asks affirmatively, the judge should be asked to not preside over the trial.
A neo-Confederate or Lost Cause type juror is not going to value the freedom of an African American as they would a white person. They have mythologies of Africans being contented to being slaves and have embraced a national attempt to maintain white supremacy and slavery. They will not take due diligence to make sure that a conviction is without doubt, instead tend to be biased to presume guilt. They will not be that concerned that there is a wrongful conviction.
Now that I have my five questions, I am not sure what my next step is. I will have to think about it.
UPDATE:
I would reword question #4 to say:
Do you think it is appropriate when states, counties, cities and other municipalities adopt Confederate symbols in their logos, flags, seals, or other symbols they might adopt?
Or.
Do you think states, counties, cities and other municipalities should not adopt Confederate symbols in their logos, flags, seals, or other symbols they might adopt?
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Popular Posts Last 30 days
-
Ironically, it is a Republican, not a Democratic candidate who has gotten the most attacks regarding the Confederacy from Neo-Confederate or...
-
I have contacted both of my U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn . The following is the automated reply from Cornyn and the...
-
At this link is an article on the response to the likely election of Obama as president of the United States in the Canadian National Post ....
-
I have added extra metarials to the page. I decided to add the information about the states which have either Confederate or Confederate ide...
-
I give it about 5 minutes after it is announced that Hilary Clinton is the next president of the United States for the secession movements t...
-
Washington Post columnist Colbert King has an opinion piece "Rise of the New Confederacy," about the Republican Party and the Tea...
-
STUPID CALIFORNIA SECESSIONISTS. Here is one of your supporters. Of course the California secessionists can't support...
-
The Stone Mountain Association wants to put up a Martin Luther King statue at Stone Mountain. Here is an article on the proposal: http:/...
-
The article is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/10/AR2010081004586.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 Incidentally...
-
It might be asserted that since the Southern Partisan is no longer being published it is not of importance that Jeff Sessions came to the d...
Popular Posts All Time
-
The article is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/10/AR2010081004586.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 Incidentally...
-
At this link is an article on the response to the likely election of Obama as president of the United States in the Canadian National Post ....
-
The ramp which was used by the cranes and other lifting equipment to go up and in the enclosed area and remove the statues and the base has ...
-
Washington Post columnist Colbert King has an opinion piece "Rise of the New Confederacy," about the Republican Party and the Tea...
-
There hasn't been an issue of the Southern Partisan (SP) for some time, about a year. I was doing some Internet researching and I stumb...
-
The other major neo-Confederate groups have gone under or just live on as remnants. The League of the South is just perhaps a dozen or may...
-
There is a new movie coming out, "12 Years a Slave." The link to the review and a trailer is at this link: http://www.slate.com/...
-
The League of the South (LS) put up a bill board in Alabama like their billboard in Florida. This is a link about the Florida billboard at...
-
The title of the essay is, "Time to Lose the Confederate Flag: Some Heresies for the Civil War Sesquicentennial," by Craig Silver....
-
I have contacted both of my U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn . The following is the automated reply from Cornyn and the...