A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated Black potential jurors at his 1990 murder trial.
A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated Black potential jurors at his 1990 murder trial.
Michael Sockwell in an undated photograph. He was found guilty of murdering a deputy sheriff, but a federal appeals court found that prosecutors violated his 14th Amendment rights at his trial in 1990.
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