Just for the sake of argument, you will not become afraid if wrongly convicted by a racist juror? Any defendant has a constitutional right to a trial by a fair and impartial jury.
In a 2014 decision, however, the Supreme Court specifically said there "may be some cases of juror bias so extreme" that, by definition, the right to a fair trial "has been abridged."
If and when such a case arises, the Court said, it could decide whether an exception is warranted.
That day has now come in the case of Miguel Peña-Rodriguez.
