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“”The Georgia Supreme Court said you can’t ignore the Latinos in your county, but you can ignore those who aren’t jury-eligible,” Bohon said. “That sounds logical, but that doesn’t mean we do that with any other group. If the county is 26 percent black, we don’t take into consideration if every black in the county is eligible for the jury. There’s one standard Latinos and another standard for everyone else.”
Fernandez, a former University of Georgia assistant professor of romance languages who now teaches at another area college, said if she had been in the jury room for the Hidalgo-Lopez trial, her understanding of Hispanic culture would have allowed for more honest deliberations.”
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