?最高法院有最終裁定權(quán)，那么這次的裁定理由又是什么呢？老夏考研“每日一題”今天的文章選自于《赫芬頓郵報(bào)》，原文文章標(biāo)題為“Supreme Court Overturns Murder Conviction”（最高法院推翻謀殺罪判決）。
今天給的這種題型，如果能夠作對(duì)，一定給自己恨恨點(diǎn)贊喲。 ......
【題目】One problem with Evans’?conviction lies in ______ ??
[A]?severity of the case.
[B]race of jurors.
[C]?incompetence of lawyers.
[D]?verdict of the jury.
【試題】
①The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 2010 conviction in the case of Curtis Flowers, a black man on death row in Mississippi for the 1996 murder of four people in a furniture store.②In a 7-2 decision authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the high court sided with Curtis’ lawyers, who argued that District Attorney Doug Evans, who is white, excluded potential black jurors on the basis of race in the 2010 trial.?③The defense attorneys said the Mississippi Supreme Court failed to properly apply U.S. Supreme Court precedent in determining whether people were unconstitutionally kept off a jury on the basis of race.④Evans has attempted to convict Flowers six times over the years; two trials — the only ones with more than one black juror — resulted in hung juries.
【參考譯文】
①The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 2010 conviction in the case of Curtis Flowers, a black man on death row in Mississippi for the 1996 murder of four people in a furniture store.?美國(guó)最高法院周五推翻了2010年對(duì)密西西比州黑人男子柯蒂斯·弗勞爾斯(Curtis Flowers)的判決。
②In a 7-2 decision authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the high court sided with Curtis’ lawyers, who argued that District Attorney Doug Evans, who is white, excluded potential black jurors on the basis of race in the 2010 trial.?在布雷特·卡瓦諾(Brett Kavanaugh)法官起草的一份7票贊成、2票反對(duì)的裁決中，高等法院站在柯蒂斯的律師一邊?？碌偎沟穆蓭熣J(rèn)為，在2010年的審判中，地區(qū)檢察官道格·埃文斯(Doug Evans)基于種族原因排除了可能的黑人陪審員。埃文斯是白人。?
③The defense attorneys said the Mississippi Supreme Court failed to properly apply U.S. Supreme Court precedent in determining whether people were unconstitutionally kept off a jury on the basis of race.?辯護(hù)律師說(shuō)，密西西比州最高法院未能恰當(dāng)?shù)剡\(yùn)用美國(guó)最高法院的先例，來(lái)決定人們是否因種族原因而違反憲法被排除在陪審團(tuán)之外。
④Evans has attempted to convict Flowers six times over the years; two trials — the only ones with more than one black juror — resulted in hung juries.?多年來(lái)，埃文斯曾六次試圖判弗勞爾斯有罪;有兩次審判 —— 唯一一次有一名以上黑人陪審員的審判 —— 出現(xiàn)了未取得一致意見(jiàn)的陪審團(tuán)。
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