Excluding a community segment from juries removes unknowable ranges of human experience

Evidence

As Chief Justice Marshall noted, “When any large and identifiable segment of the community is excluded from jury service, the effect is to remove from the jury room qualities of human nature and varieties of human experience the range of which is unknown, and perhaps unknowable” (Peters v. Kiff, 1972). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 840

Categorization

• CANDY: The Chief Justice conceding that the value lost by excluding jurors is ‘unknown, and perhaps unknowable’ is a quotable irony for an institution built on precedent and logic.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 840