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Apr 29
kohenari: If editorials about all the evidence of bias in capital cases don’t give you pause, perhaps you’d be interested in the evidence itself: Juries formed from all-white jury pools in Florida convicted black defendants 16 percent more often than white defendants, a gap that was nearly eliminated when at least one member of the jury pool was black, according to a Duke University-led study.   The researchers examined more than 700 non-capital felony criminal cases in Sarasota and Lake counties from 2000-2010 and looked at the effects of the age, race and gender of jury pools on conviction rates. The article — by Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer and Randi Hjalmarsson — is here. HT: Karen Fink.

kohenari:

If editorials about all the evidence of bias in capital cases don’t give you pause, perhaps you’d be interested in the evidence itself:

Juries formed from all-white jury pools in Florida convicted black defendants 16 percent more often than white defendants, a gap that was nearly eliminated when at least one member of the jury pool was black, according to a Duke University-led study.  

The researchers examined more than 700 non-capital felony criminal cases in Sarasota and Lake counties from 2000-2010 and looked at the effects of the age, race and gender of jury pools on conviction rates.

The article — by Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer and Randi Hjalmarsson — is here.

HT: Karen Fink.

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
Posted at 12:21 PM 2,234 notes
Source: today.duke.edu

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