Systematically Excluded
A Trial Judge’s Fight for Justice
Systematically Excluded is a story of law, conscience, institutional power, and consequence.
About the Book
Conscience and principle under pressure
Systematically Excluded: A Trial Judge’s Fight for Justice recounts what followed a judge's decision to grant a defendant’s motion to dismiss a nearly all-white jury panel. His ruling — and his criticism of a prosecutorial action — drew national attention and a months-long suspension. This book reflects on the professional and human costs of standing alone in the face of institutional pressure. Part memoir and part legal meditation, Systematically Excluded offers a ground-level account of those events.
Publication forthcoming.
From the Author
My experience under institutional constraint.
Systematically Excluded recounts my order that granted a defendant's motion for relief from a jury panel, and my criticism of a petition for certification of law. What followed became the focal point of years of scrutiny, controversy, and institutional response.
This book is not intended as a formal analysis of the law or a comprehensive judicial memoir. It offers a view of what it means to confront institutional forces from the vantage point of a trial judge—told in my own words after seven years of imposed silence and more than a decade of reflection.
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