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22 Feb 2024, 2:01 pm by Melody McDonald Lanier
“I would routinely have people come to my office, thinking I was a white guy and, when they found out I was a black guy, they turned around to leave,” he said.Heiskell recalled a family who retained him for a high-profile murder case but then later changed their mind and went with a white attorney because the judge, victim, and prosecutor on the case were all white. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 7:05 am by David Markus
” And when threats of draconian sentences compel guilty pleas, “some innocent people will plead guilty. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 7:19 am by Steve Hall
  More on the 1986 Supreme Court case, McCleskey v. [read post]
24 Dec 2014, 4:37 am
., told Bell Rainey commented to her that he thought she had `”messed” with some nasty people’ and suggested that he otherwise would have, in S.S.'s words, `turn[ed][her] back “straight” from being “gay. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 8:58 pm by Barry Barnett
Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the Court limited the ability of prosecutors to use peremptory challenges as a means to achieve frequently all-white juries. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 12:46 pm by Mark Walsh
’” But Strauder did not solve the problem of racial exclusion from jury service, Kavanaugh adds, leading to the 1986 decision in Batson. [read post]
  Wealthy white Americans take it upon themselves to manage the art they have deemed worthy, removed from the people they have deemed unworthy. [read post]