Reuters
Prosecutors do not have to prove race played no role in seeking the death penalty against the truck driver charged in the nation's deadliest human smuggling disaster, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
The ruling called for the court to resume jury selection which had been halted on Jan. 5 in the trial of Tyrone Williams, who is charged in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants who were locked in his sweltering trailer last year.
In its ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans agreed with prosecutors that U.S. Judge Vanessa Gilmore's planned instructions to the jury in the event of a guilty verdict against Williams were improper.
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