Andy Boes in Trial News – The Most Qualified to See Bias Are the First to Go: Rethinking Cause Challenges in Discrimination Cases

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Jul 11, 2025

Discrimination cases raise difficult questions in jury selection—especially when potential jurors have experienced discrimination in their own lives.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that people of color and other members of protected classes may be more likely to be stricken from a jury for cause than their counterparts. In this month’s edition of Washington State Association for Justice Trial News, SGB’s Andy Boes explores this pattern and discusses a possible solution.

Read the article here.