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  • Court seeks color-blind jury - Prequalifications begin today in Boyd case to weed out racial bias

    04/07/2008 7:52:18 AM PDT · by SmithL · 25 replies · 73+ views
    Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 4/7/8 | Jamie Satterfield
    Raise your hand if you are a racist. The question put to potential jurors today in U.S. District Court likely won't be that blunt, but the aim is the same: Ferret out anyone who cannot be color-blind when deciding the fate of accessory to fatal carjacking suspect Eric "E" Boyd. It is an unusual inquiry in what U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan is already foreseeing as an uncommon method to seat an impartial jury in an inflammatory case involving a headline-grabbing crime and a resulting racial firestorm. Boyd is standing trial beginning today on charges he helped hide Lemaricus "Slim"...