 The prosecution said that the "Batson" claim was invalid because Abu-Jamal made no complaints during the original jury selection.The resulting jury was racially mixed, with 2 blacks and 10 whites at the time of the unanimous conviction, but defense counsel told the Third Circuit Court that Abu-Jamal did not get a fair trial because the jury was racially biased, misinformed, and the judge was a racist.He noted that the prosecution used eleven out of fourteen peremptory challenges to eliminate prospective black jurors.