Roach: Ending peremptory challenges in jury selection is a good first step

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, it behooves us to recall this statement from Dr. King: “You don’t have to see the full staircase, just take the first step.”
When it comes to equality and juries, the first and necessary step is the abolition of peremptory challenges. These allow both Crown prosecutors and defence lawyers to exclude people from juries simply because they do not like the way they look.
A number of defence lawyer