Venire:
A panel of prospective jurors. A jury is eventually chosen from the venire. [Legal Information Institute / Cornell Law School]
Noted in “How Blatant Must a Prosecutor’s Racism Be for the SCOTUS to Notice?” Michael C. Dorf, Dorf On Law:
Flowers was tried by a jury that included only one African American, despite the fact that the venire was 42% African American. The prosecutor — the same prosecutor whose conduct led to the prior reversals based on Batson violations — exercised five of his six peremptory challenges against African American potential jurors. The trial judge found his ostensible race-neutral justifications credible and the Mississippi Supreme Court credited that finding.
