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Recommend 19 Out of 21 Potential Black Jurors excused in Klansman James Ford Seale Trial (Email)

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The pool of potential jurors for the federal kidnapping and conspiracy trial of reputed Klansman James Ford Seale that began with 76 this morning is down to 55.

By early afternoon, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate had excused 21 potential jurors for hardships or other reasons.

"You are being asked to perform one of the highest duties of citizenship, to sit in judgment on facts that will determine guilt or innocence,” Wingate told the potential jurors at the James O. Eastland Federal Courthouse in Jackson.

Seale is charged in connection with the 1964 abductions, beatings and slayings of two African-American teens.

Of the 76 potential jurors, 19 were African American. By the afternoon, two of the 19 were among those excused.

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