A Black man is entitled to a new trial after an all-White jury deliberated in a room filled with Confederate symbols, court says
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A Tennessee court has decided a Black man convicted of aggravated assault deserves a new trial because evidence was improperly admitted and the jury deliberated in a room filled with tributes to the Confederacy, according to court documents.
Judge James Curwood Witt Jr. said in an opinion filed last week that the room's decorations honored a Confederacy that "not only defended slavery, but endorsed it fully using dehumanizing and racist language."
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