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Eugene

(66,802 posts) Tue Apr 1, 2025, 11:57 PM Apr 2025

Buffalo supermarket shooter wants his death penalty trial moved to NYC for a diverse, impartial jury

Source: Associated Press

Buffalo supermarket shooter wants his death penalty trial moved to NYC for a diverse, impartial jury

By CAROLYN THOMPSON
Updated 4:40 PM EDT, April 1, 2025

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Attorneys for a white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket want to move his death penalty-eligible trial to New York City, writing in a court filing that it would be difficult to seat a diverse and impartial jury in the upstate city.

About 85% of Buffalo’s Black residents live in East Buffalo, where the shooting occurred, Payton Gendron’s lawyers wrote Monday, and many would be prevented from serving on the jury because of ties to the case.

“If the verdict in this case is to carry any moral authority, it should be delivered by a diverse group of citizens. But, given the history of segregation in Buffalo, that is exceedingly unlikely” if the case is tried in Buffalo, they said.

The filing also cited the hundreds of local news stories that have been published since the May 2022 attack at the Tops Friendly Market.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/gendron-buffalo-supermarket-racist-mass-shooting-cde8ccfc992afde2407b04b02d2c1d2c

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Buffalo supermarket shooter wants his death penalty trial moved to NYC for a diverse, impartial jury (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2025 OP

This clown and Luigi can have matching gurneys in the Death Chamber. WarGamer Apr 2025 #1

Recommended. H2O Man Apr 2025 #2

"Impartial"? You MF killed Cha Apr 2025 #3

I Suspect This Cowardly Sleazeball Would Get His Just Desserts in the Big Apple, Too The Roux Comes First Apr 2025 #4

So...he wants DEI??? tanyev Apr 2025 #5

Because of trash like him RJ-MacReady Apr 2025 #6

WarGamer

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1. This clown and Luigi can have matching gurneys in the Death Chamber.

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Tue Apr 1, 2025, 11:59 PM

Apr 2025

H2O Man

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2. Recommended.

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Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:06 AM

Apr 2025

My son & I got into Buffalo about 90 minutes after the shooting. We were staying in a hotel not far from the grocery store, for the finals of the NYS Golden Gloves. He won, but it was a terrible time. I knew the shooter had raised concerns with threats a year before, in the Southern Tier.

It is obscene for his lawyer to say that being black somehow equals a tie to the case. But there is a president who has made racism fashionable again in some circles.