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created_at: '2016-03-13T16:16:28.000Z'
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title: Court Computer Says All Hartford Is Dead (1992)
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url: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/30/nyregion/court-computer-says-all-hartford-is-dead.html
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author: adamnemecek
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2018-06-08 12:05:27 +00:00
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year: 1992
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2018-02-23 18:58:03 +00:00
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2018-03-03 09:35:28 +00:00
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**HARTFORD, Sept. 29—** Court officials have figured out why Hartford
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residents were excluded from Federal grand jury pools over the past
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three years: The computer that selected names thought everyone in the
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city was dead.
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Federal District Court workers discovered the computer error while
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investigating why no Hartford residents had been on lists of prospective
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grand jurors.
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The city's name had been listed in the wrong place on computer records,
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forcing the "d" at the end of "Hartford" into the column used to
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describe the status of prospective jurors. "D" stands for dead.
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So every time the names of Hartford residents popped up for jury duty,
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the computer noted the deaths and declined to send them juror
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questionnaires, said Kevin Rowe, chief Federal clerk.
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The problem came to light in a lawsuit challenging the racial makeup of
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the grand jury that indicted Luis Colon Osario, a defendant in the $7.1
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million robbery of a Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford in 1983.
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