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Maraya1969

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13. If those were white kids in that car would the verdict be different?

Reply to JJChambers (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 21, 2014, 12:07 AM

Feb 2014

I would expect a guilty verdict for murder 1 if the boys were white and the victim was white.

It really is a perplexing issue. I wonder what would happen if our courts tried people in absentia and all the jury heard was their spoken words, (not by them but by a computer), and the evidence was set so that the juror did not even know if the defendant were a man or a woman or what race they were.

That would be an interesting experiment.

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I think racism is a lot more covert than I used to. [View all] Maraya1969 Feb 2014 OP

They were following the law and the instructions provided by the court. elleng Feb 2014 #1

Pawning off responsibility on technicalities is intellectual laziness. Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 #2

Applying the law has nothing to do with technicalities or laziness. elleng Feb 2014 #3

It very often times has a lot to do with both. Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 #5

For those who are too lazy to bother to understand, maybe. elleng Feb 2014 #6

I understand the argument for legal incrementality. I don't agree with it in its entirety. Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 #11

Fuck the "law". Dunn is murderer. cheapdate Feb 2014 #9

but still may have been subject to their personal biases kwassa Feb 2014 #8

'May' have been, of course, elleng Feb 2014 #12

There was such an outcry JJChambers Feb 2014 #4

Or, conversely, we need to make it more difficult to get away with murdering black men. Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 #7

Thank you. elleng Feb 2014 #10

If those were white kids in that car would the verdict be different? Maraya1969 Feb 2014 #13

if those kids were white pothos Feb 2014 #18

i agree, there was a black hispanic woman in the zimmerman trial and i believe she was pressured JI7 Feb 2014 #14

Certainly true shaayecanaan Feb 2014 #15

The jury members who have spoken out had voted for conviction kcr Feb 2014 #16

Paralysis by analysis 1000words Feb 2014 #17