A man facing the death penalty has won a challenge to the way Fulton County picks juries. The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Fulton County is violating the high court’s Jury Composition Rule, agreeing with Otis Ricks Jr., who is accused of murdering a restaurant owner during an armed robbery.
“We conclude that the trial court erred in denying Ricks’s motion to declare Fulton County’s method of creating its jury lists to be in violation of the Jury Composition Rule and by not ensuring that the Rule is followed in Ricks’s case,” Justice David Nahmias wrote.
