WASHINGTON -- A high-profile case that could redefine how lower courts grapple with racial discrimination in jury selection may not be the slam-dunk advocates had hoped. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Foster v. Chatman, the case of a Georgia death-row inmate who wants the justices to rule that prosecutors in his 1987 murder trial unconstitutionally excluded every black person from the jury pool for no other reason but their race. Timothy Foster's lawyer, Stephen Bright, had barely begun to recount the prosecution's actions to the court when Chief Justice John Roberts derailed his line of argument with an esoteric legal question for which he seemed ill-prepared. "Mr....
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