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    Family members of a Black teenager shot and killed by police in an Alabama suburb of Birmingham want to see the body camera footage of the shooting. Eighteen-year-old Jabari Peoples was shot by an officer in the affluent suburb of Homewood on July 23. The Homewood Police Department said Peoples grabbed a gun after struggling with the officer. The family is disputing that version of events. Leroy Maxwell, Jr. is an attorney representing the family. He called on the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to turn over the body camera footage. The state agency is reviewing the shooting.

      A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990. On Monday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Michael Sockwell’s 14th Amendment rights were breached, arguing prosecutors excluded Black jurors based on race. Sockwell was convicted of killing a sheriff in 1988 and is now eligible for a retrial. The court cited a pattern of racial discrimination in jury selection by the state. A dissenting judge argued there was no clear evidence of bias.

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