Sonali Chakravarti

Sonali Chakravarti is an associate professor of government at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life.

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The Chauvin Trial’s Jury Wasn’t Like Other Juries

Its guilty verdict resulted not just from the strength of the evidence, but from a jury-selection process that departed from American norms.
- Sonali Chakravarti
- April 28, 2021