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Jury Non-selection

Christie Blatchford has done an article, in the Globe and Mail, about the systematic exclusion of Aboriginal peoples from juries.

The Lawyers Weekly (Vol 19, No. 8) June 26, 2009, front page, has an article on "Background checks on jurors a potential 'disaster in the courts" by Tracy McLaughlin. She says in June

"defense lawyers inadvertently discovered that local Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachments has provided private information on hundreds of people on jury panel lists and then provided that information to the Crown"
(The article continues on page 26)