Race and the justice system
 

Yes, as OJ Simpson's case showed, whites are routinely disqualified from jury by the defense lawyers of black defendants soley based on race.

Good article http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

My concern was not whether or not another trial would change the outcome. Obviously if he's the murderer, he should be convicted.

Rather, to me the issue seems to be that racism and discrimination against blacks, Hispanics, and so forth sometimes seriously undermines how our justice system is suppose to work.

Originally posted by Kidicious


It could just as well have been that the black potential jurers were prejudice as the jurers seemed to be in the OJ case. The assumption then would be that black jurors are prejudiced while white jurors are not; which is a very racist assumption, and hence not permitted. It's one thing to exclude someone for cause for saying "I will not convict a black person", but you can't assume a black person will not convict a black person for the same reason you can't assume a white person will not convict a white person.

I thought Batson was silent on what the Defense can and can not do.

He took a traffic violation to court? http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/lol.gif

Mr Fun, stirring the stink pot again. USA sucks, what's new?

Hogwash.

I lot of countries kill gays out of habit. That's just one point. Want to whine some more?

Originally posted by snoopy369


The assumption then would be that black jurors are prejudiced while white jurors are not; which is a very racist assumption, and hence not permitted. It's one thing to exclude someone for cause for saying "I will not convict a black person", but you can't assume a black person will not convict a black person for the same reason you can't assume a white person will not convict a white person. You have to think about probabilities when you are the attorneys I think. What are the probability that the potential jurer would either convict or not? That's just what I think though, not an expert or anything. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
2 injustices don´t make one right.

Just because discrimination of other people because of race (or sexual orientation) is a lesser evil than killing them for this reason there is no reason not to complain about both of them,
QFT


On another note, in Slowwhand's own "world" racism simply is non-existent in United States.