Monday, April 30, 2012

Ontario Jury Pools on Trial this week

The makeup of juries goes on trial before

Ontario's top court this week as two killers fight their guilty verdicts.

Lawyer Julian Falconer argues aboriginals have been unfairly shut out from juries for years.

The two aboriginals, including Clifford Kokopenace of Grassy Narrows are asking the Court of Appeal for new trials because on-reserve First Nations people were excluded from the juries that convicted them.

Kokopenace was convicted of manslaughter in Kenora Court back in 2008.