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four other boys who were white due to the prevention of a racial incident. Duncan intended to break the conversation off and had his cousins separate from the other boys. It was alleged that Duncan had slapped one of the white boys, Herman Landry, on his elbow just before entering his vehicle. Duncan was convicted of simple battery in the Twenty-fifth Judicial District Court of Louisiana. Duncan had requested a jury trial but was denied due to Louisiana Law only granting jury trials in cases involving

African American Lena Baker was brutally executed by electrocution for using self defense against a white man who assaulted her numerous times. Society recognizes the existence of equality and the importance of equivalence to one another. However, ignorance of equality has led to serious societal issues, such as biased and inaccurate accusations, feeding society's absurd stereotypes, and how efforts to alter unfair social norms are nonexistent. These critical flaws show us that society oversees equality

Race and Jury: The Decision-Making of Juries and Race When thinking of a jury, there is a belief that everyone is fair when it comes to making the decision of whether the person being accused of the crime is guilty or not guilty because of the person’s race. What if this belief is not necessarily correct? There have been many instances in whether race has been a factor when the jury makes a decision. According to Baskin, Goldstein, and Sommers (2014), there has been enough evidence to show that

snowman, the mad dog and the white camelia. First Harper Lee uses the snowman to foreshadow a loss of innocence. Scout narrates, “Jem scooped up an armful of dirt, patted it into a mound on which he added another load, and another until he had constructed a torso. Jem scooped some snow and began plastering it on.” (89). In this quote, Scout describes how Jem made a snowman during their first snowfall. The way Jem constructs the snowman symbolizes blacks inferiority to whites in the South. During the

racial lopsidedness which pervades the prison industrial complex. Alexander states that racial biases on juries has historic roots in slavery, “until 1860, no black person had ever sat on a jury in the United States. During the Reconstruction era, African Americans began to serve on juries in the South for the first time.” (Alexander, 117) Alexander contends that the lack of diversity on juries lead to countless miscarriages of justice against African-Americans. An example of this would be the infamous

JURY NULLIFICATION Jury Nullification Paper University of Phoenix Theresa Weekly December 5, 2010 Introduction Jury nullification is the act of a jury in exonerating a defendant, even though they are truly guilty of violating the law. When this happens, the defendant is found innocent, even though without an act of jury nullification they would have been found

them (the jury) that 's why I picked you… How 's a black man ever gonna get a fair trail with the enemy behind the bench and in the jury box? My life is in white hands. You Jake, are my secret weapon- you are one of the bad guys… you don 't mean to be but you are… you see me as different… you see me like that jury sees me… if you were on the jury what would it take to convince you to set me free. That 's how you save my ass." The next morning during closing statements, Jake urges the jury to seek truth

request for a change of venue on the grounds that it would be impossible to find a fair and impartial jury in any county in Mississippi. Jury selection begins with protests to “Free Carl Lee” and the Klan protesting outside as well, tensions are high and a riot breaks out. A Klan member is set on fire, the black sheriff is beaten, and Jake is stabbed in the leg. The day ends with the inevitable all white jury. The Klan continues to terrorize the city by burning crosses and burning Jake’s house down. The

the United States, white families have falsely accused black men of rape in order to gain power and demonize their slaves. Rape has been used by white men in order to gain and keep power since the beginnings of their supremacy (Haynes 1). This is true for both actual rape and false rape accusations, as assault takes away a victim’s power and a false accusation takes away that of the accused. As such, white families have accused men, specifically black men, of raping the white women in their communities

lawyer in Maycomb and is relatively financially-stable compared to the rest of the people in his community, even amidst the Great Depression. In Maycomb, a black man named Tom Robinson is being sent to trial for raping a white woman. Due to this town being heavily populated by whites and extremely racist, it was almost impossible for Tom Robinson to find a lawyer who would defend him at trial. Atticus Finch agrees to defend Tom Robinson in court and causes the town to go into a fury. Atticus’s children