Circuit clerk takes issue with jury claims

Tuesday, March 26, 2002

JACKSON, Mo. -- The circuit clerk in Cape Girardeau County objects to a defense attorney's recent assertion that a small jury pool here limited the chance that blacks would be included on his client's jury.

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