Supreme Court orders review of the role race played in case of black man on Georgia’s death row
LA TimesThe Supreme Court is sharply split on whether to reopen old cases involving black defendants and white jurors who made racist comments. The Supreme Court voted Monday to give a black inmate convicted of murder in Georgia a chance to overturn his 27-year-old death sentence because of racist comments made by a white juror years later. They said Gattie’s affidavit “presents a strong factual basis for the argument that Tharpe’s race affected Gattie’s vote for a death verdict.” The opinion stops well short of reversing Tharpe’s death sentence, however. He still “faces a high bar” in overturning a state judge’s ruling that Gattie’s racist views did not play a role in the jury’s deliberations, the court wrote. “We look forward to pressing Mr. Tharpe’s case in the 11th Circuit.” Lawyers for Georgia had told the court that Gattie, who is deceased, had disavowed his initial statement to the defense lawyers and said he had been drinking heavily.
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