COMMONWEALTH v. FOSTER


221 Pa.Super. 426 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Foster, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 16, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Moschetta, for appellant.

Walter W. Gregory, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, with him Jess D. Costa, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, CERCONE, and PACKEL, JJ.


OPINION BY PACKEL, J., June 16, 1972:

Justice should be impartial but that does not mean that in the course of its administration judges must be color-blind. Nevertheless, the president judge of the court below, in approving a denial of voir dire questioning on racial discrimination stated: "The law should be color-blind and the less we get into questions of race, the better off we all would be." To sweep under the rug, figuratively, the reality of life that...

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