A UC Berkeley study released Monday unearthed that prosecutors usually routinely strike Black and Latino prospective jurors and that appellate courts have failed to rein in the practice. The study, "Whitewashing the Jury Box," was spearheaded by UC Berkeley law professor Elisabeth Semel, who runs the law school's Death Penalty Clinic, the Los Angeles Times reported. The report examined close to 700 cases decided by the state's Courts of Appeal from 2006 through 2018 that involved appeals of prosecutors' jury strikes.