Racial Discrimination

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The paper maintains that the truth of race in courts is that mixed race juries tend to not reach a guilty verdict against minority defendants as frequently as all white juries. The paper presents how research has also determined that the race of the lawyer has little effect and that the race of the judge has no effect on the outcome of the trial. The paper therefore contends that it seems that the inherent racial perceptions of the common layperson most often makes up the population of the jury.

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"A clear case can be made that supports the idea that there exists a racial bias against court defendants who are minorities. One has only to look at the statistics of men and women of color who are in jail - for some groups, the ratio of minorities in jail versus their relative percentage of the national population is greater by as many as thirty or forty times. There is psychological evidence that jury members are less likely to convict members of their own race and more likely to convict members of races with whom their own race has had a traditional conflict - which is why many prosecutors actively seek all-white juries in criminal cases involving a black or Hispanic defendant."

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