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In 1992, Connecticut’s federal court found that Hartford and New Britain — home to two-thirds of the state’s Black and Hispanic populations — were improperly omitted entirely from the qualified jury wheel because a computer read the letter “d” in “Hartford” as meaning all potential jurors there were deceased and because names from New Britain’s voter rolls were never inputted.

In part they blame the federal court’s “master jury wheel” of about 600,000 potential jurors for underrepresenting Black people.

They asked for dismissal of the indictment and a halt to proceedings in the case ending what they called the “reconstitution of the jury wheel”.

Thereupon the clerk, in the presence of representatives of both parties, shall draw from the jury wheel or box containing the names of persons selected to serve as petit jurors in the court of common pleas in such county, twenty names which shall be drawn and counted in a like manner as for jurors in the court of common pleas.

Two men at the jury wheel, kickin' like a mule, Bringin' home the Rio Grande up to Liverpool.