Megan Basham

prosecutors used peremptory strikes against the three prospective Black jurors in the pool, and that left an all-white jury.

So defense attorney Mike Howard strongly objected, and he argued that these strikes were racially motivated.

What he said was that those three jurors that were excused were 100% of the available African-American jurors in the strike zone.

Now, that kind of challenge, which argues that jurors have been dismissed because of race, is what's known as a Batson challenge.

And law professor Anna Offit told the local Fox affiliate that these kinds of challenges are rarely made and almost never successful.

But it could provide grounds for appeal.

Prosecutors pushed back, saying that the strikes had nothing to do with race, but were because all three of those jurors were teachers.

And this case, of course, centers on high school students.

So Judge John Roach ultimately sided with the prosecutors, and he allowed those strikes to stand.

So what that means is that the final jury was seated without any Black jurors on the panel.

Yeah, absolutely.

Very racially charged.

And this has only contributed to the racial conflict as activists and left-wing commentators immediately began framing the jury's composition as evidence of racial bias in the justice system.

Basically, supporters of Anthony are arguing that a non-Black jury cannot be trusted to fairly evaluate this case.

So critics of that argument responded that jurors are supposed to evaluate evidence rather than represent racial constituencies.

But outside the courtroom, supporters of Anthony have gathered and they are chanting free Carmelo and they are framing this as racial injustice despite the facts of this case.

Now, meanwhile, conservative commentators, including the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh, have pointed to the millions of dollars in donations that Anthony received on GoFundMe immediately after he was arrested for killing Metcalf.

Now, Walsh has argued that those donors seem to be indulging in some form of racial solidarity themselves, given the horrific nature of the allegations against Anthony.

Yeah, they asked a variety of questions on a variety of topics, including views on race, how they feel about serving on the case, whether they would hold it against a defendant if he didn't testify on his own behalf.

The defense also tried to gauge if potential jurors would be uncomfortable giving Carmelo Anthony information.