Were jurors dismissed because they were Black or female? Supreme Court declines to review.

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a case about jury selection that advocates hoped would prevent prosecutors and defense attorneys from keeping people off juries solely because of their race and gender.

The court rejected a request to review whether a Georgia prosecutor improperly struck Black and female jurors from a panel that convicted and sentenced to death a Black man for murdering a white woman during a robbery attempt.

Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson...