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Kern County murder verdict upheld as divided court rejects bias claim

A divided California Supreme Court upheld a Black man’s death sentence Thursday for raping and murdering a young white woman in Kern County, rejecting arguments by dissenting justices that the prosecutor engaged in racial discrimination by removing the only Black juror without stating his reasons.

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