Jury Discrimination Under Scrutiny

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The United States Supreme Court is looking at a jury discrimination case from Texas.In Wisconsin, some reformers are trying to solve a related but distinct problem.While jury discrimination cases appear relatively rare in Wisconsin, minorities are often under-represented on juries.For some counties, the problem got even worse in the last state budget bill.Benson Gardner reports.

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