On March 8, 2010 the New York Times printed out an article that dealt with a court case involving the death of 37 year old Ecuadorean illegal immigrant Marcelo Lucero who died in November 2008. He was beaten to death by 7 teenagers who felt amusement from beating up Hispanic men. It upsets me that it has taken 2 years for them to finally go on trial. But what really takes me over the edge are the people that were asked to come in to be appoint for jury duty. A lot of the people claimed that it would be wrong for them to be apart of the jury of this case because they have a bias against illegal immigrants. My problem with this is that it should not matter what you feel about illegal immigrants due to the fact that a man was killed. As to whether or not these biases were brought up in order to relieve the individuals from jury duty, I don’t know. However, what I do know is that as American citizens it is our job to apart of the jury of peers that the constitution provides us with. I can only hope that there are more people who feel the way I do.
