Daniel Cowart, half of the pair charged with a plot to kill Barack Obama and begin a killing spree, has challenged his grand jury indictment. Cowart’s attorney, Joe Byrd, claims that the grand jury, which consisted of 21 black or non-white members and 2 white members, could not “be considered fair, impartial and unprejudiced.” In an argument that is usually used in cases where non-white minority defendants face mostly white juries, Byrd said, “the law requires [that a jury have] a fair cross section of the community and that didn’t happen.”
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