The Wharton County Courthouse is pictured in this file photo. A prosecutor in Wharton County has accused the elected district attorney of working repeatedly to keep blacks off juries in that rural county southwest of Houston. / Photo: Gerald Moorhead
From Brian Rogers at The Houston Chronicle / 03.22.2016:
A prosecutor in Wharton County has accused the elected district attorney of working repeatedly to keep blacks off juries in that rural county southwest of Houston.
In a hearing earlier this month, Assistant District Attorney Nathan Wood told a judge that his boss, District Attorney Ross Kurtz, told him to keep black residents off juries in criminal trials in order to improve the prosecution’s chances of winning the case.