Brazoria Country District Clerk Sorted Jurors by Race

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On the morning of July 19, several hundred Brazoria County residents appeared for jury duty in downtown Angleton, a fifty-minute drive south of Houston. After excusing those with valid exemptions, district clerk officials collected questionnaire cards from the potential jurors and retired to a back room. If they followed district clerk Rhonda Barchak’s standard procedure, which her attorney described last week to Texas Monthly, they then divided the cards into residents of Pearland (the county’s largest city) and non-Pearland residents before further subdividing each stack into white and non-white residents. From these four stacks they assembled jury panels, also known as venires, for each of the week’s trials. 

Among the trials that needed a jury that week was the State of Texas v. Darrell Anthony Adell Jr. The 32-year-old former Dow Chemical supervisor was charged with the 2019 murder of Trisha Rodriguez, the mother of Adell’s then-two-year-old son. (The trial was postponed for more than two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.) According to district clerk records obtained by Adell’s attorney and reported here for the first time, his panel of potential jurors consisted of 102 Brazoria County residents—71 white and 31 non-white. The final jury of 12 had a white majority, with no women or African Americans, according to several individuals who attended the trial, including a local reporter and relatives of Adell. Brazoria County is 43 percent white, 31 percent Hispanic, 15 percent Black, and 7 percent Asian American. Adell’s father is Black and his mother is white. (The Brazoria County district attorney’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the composition of Adell’s jury.)

Adell’s trial began on July 28 and concluded on August 4. The jurors took two and a half hoursto convict him of first-degree murder. The following day, they sentenced Adell to life in prison.