With a green highlighter, the prosecution marked up the list of potential jurors and then inked in the notations "#B1," "#B2," "#B3" and so on. The "B" was an unsubtle code for black, and the prosecutors struck each of them from the jury. On another sheet of paper, the state listed six people as "definite NO's" for the jury. The first five were the remaining African-Americans in the jury pool.
