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Monday, July 8, 2013

What does a "Jury of your Peers" mean for Samoan Americans

Online a simple answer site says "A Jury of your Peers means a Jury of your fellow citizens, which includes your ethnicity." The American Census as of the 1980 American Census, puts Samoans under a single race and ethnicity [A Samoan Race], which bakes the question then if in order for a Samoan to be convicted of a crime by jury, then does there have to be at least a Samoan Jury presence. According to research, there are less than 80,000 Samoan Americans in the "entire" United States. In 2010, Mayor Eddie Perez of Hartford Connecticut, Hartford City's first Hispanic Mayor, caught a case in which his lawyers watched out for an equal "Jury of his Peers", out of concern for equal justice, who by the way has a community of over 500,000 Hispanics in Hartford City alone.