A review of case studies, court and correctional statistics, and laboratory and field research suggests that prejudice against minority groups, particularly blacks, influences perceived guilt, jury deliberations, trial outcomes, and sentencing. A consideration of existing techniques for eliminating the effects of racial bias on criminal trials indicates that the assurance of a representative jury, screening out of biased jurors, or control of the content of jury deliberations are all inappropriate tools for neutralizing the effects of the amounts and kinds of bias documented by empirical evidence. A possible way to eliminate the effects of racial bias would be to afford minority defendants (blacks, Asians, Hispanics) a right to a racially similar jury. It is recommended that this right not be extended to individual white ethnic groups that at least three racially similar jurors be guaranteed, and that the right would belong to the defendant alone. 505 footnotes.