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Judge won't try Black man in courtroom with white portraits

by Matthew Barakat
| December 22, 2020 3:03 PM

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A Black defendant's right to a fair trial would be harmed if the jury heard the case in a courtroom lined with portraits of white jurists, a northern Virginia judge has ruled.

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