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Op-Ed: Black people are wrongly convicted more than any other group. We can prevent this

Por: Los Angeles Times Opinion October 07, 2022

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One of my clients, Duane Buck, was convicted of murder in 1997 and sentenced to death, in part because an expert testified that he was more likely to commit criminal acts of violence in the future because he is Black. That racist testimony led the Supreme Court to overturn Buck’s death sentence in 2017. The belief that race is a proxy for criminality pervades the U.S. legal system. Indeed, a new report from the National Registry of... + full article



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