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Racial Justice Act

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Friday, April 20, 2012 8:10 PM

The Racial Justice Act is a new law that has just been used to overturn a case in Eastern North Carolina. A black judge overturned a black man on death row for killing a unarmed white teenager in 1994. Michigan State law students came down south to subvert NC State Law and Justice by filing that the case was bias against blacks. The jury which was originally been 9 whites, 2 blacks, and 1 Indian. Not only a cross section of America but Eastern Carolina. The Lumbee Indians are around Cumberland County. For the northerners that was not a true cross section. So our taxes our going to continue to keep this crap bag alive.

First what angers me is this is considered not a racial killing. Two that law students from Michigan State are in the South. Doesn't Detroit have issues.

Three when our we going to get real about the negro problem. With all the head start programs and short bus rides to school they have an average IQ of 85. No improvement. Now the USA has 1 out of 3 blacks between the ages of 18 and 24 are in prison, awaiting trial, or on probation. Get real either Bill Clinton's policy of 3 strikes your out is a racist plot or it is true on profiling blacks. The ghetto nation is bringing America down. Whites who have never fought or been violated by the blacks either are fairies or live in Wisconsin.

America is on the way of South Africa. Aids invested and lawless nation. RJA is coming to a state near you. It will open all cases between black on white crime.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012 7:29 PM

RIONAEIRE

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Racism can work any direction, if one person considerers himself part of one group and kills someone from another group because they are from said other group then its racism and it isn't okay in any direction. That's for the court to decide whether it was a racist event or if those two just didn't get along for a miriod of other reasons that people kill each other.

But that other stuff you said ... huh???????? The Mississippi 1910s called, they want you back. WE don't do that luh suh up in here.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:32 PM

CATPIRATE

Hey at the end of the day this black dude is a killer. But he had death row and now it has been a reduced sentence. Well for me if it had been a white killer I would like him executed. But we will see how this federal law overturns alot of cases for bad men.

My nephew is a cop who was investicated by the FBI over a racial killing. Well the black man had sliced to pieces his girlfriend and my nephew's partener waxed him in return fire. The problem is we have some bad apples and we need to deal with them. Just like people who blame the gun not the person. A 1970 case where a San Fran lib's son was killed by a Black Panther who hated whites. He blamed his son's death on the gun and became a big anti-gun lobbyist.

Crime sucks.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012 9:35 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Some links are useful. Looks like it is about use of racial discrimination is jury selection.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/20/2759524/racial-justice-act-trial
-no-execution.html

Judge: Death-penalty jury reforms needed
First Racial Justice case results in life without possible parole.
Posted: Monday, Apr. 23, 2012

The first test of North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act resulted in the commutation Friday of a death-row inmate’s sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. That’s historic.

But the most compelling outcome of that trial was these words from Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks, who heard the case and commuted the sentence:

The inmate’s attorneys “presented a wealth of evidence showing the persistent, persuasive and distorting role of race in jury selection in North Carolina… The state’s evidence not only failed to rebut [the inmate’s] evidentiary showing, but in many respects, it reinforced and strengthened it. The evidence is a clear signal of the need for reform in capital jury selection proceedings in the future.”

He further noted that “the very integrity of the court is jeopardized when a prosecutor’s discrimination invites cynicism respecting the jury’s neutrality and undermines public confidence.”

That’s a damning summation of the application of justice in North Carolina. If the judge is on point, even those who don’t agree with the Racial Justice Act – which allows inmates to appeal death sentences on racial bias grounds – as a remedy should heed the call for reform in how capital case juries are selected.

Prosecutors say they will challenge the judge’s ruling, denying that their exclusion from Marcus Robinson’s trial of potential black jurors was influenced by race. But Judge Weeks concluded otherwise. He found that prosecutors deliberately excluded black jurors from service in Robinson’s case.

He based his ruling in part on a Michigan State University study that found race has been a factor in North Carolina’s jury selection and its sentencing. Prosecutors said the study was too limited and failed to detect nonracial reasons for excluding blacks from juries.

We’ve said we don’t think inmates should be allowed to simply use evidence of general bias to prove their specific case was tainted by such bias. But Robinson’s lawyers presented evidence of both a pattern of bias from cases other than his own, and data for his particular case alleging there was inequity. They said that at Robinson’s trial, the prosecution removed half of all qualified African-American jurors from serving on the jury, but removed only 15 percent of white jurors. Robinson was tried by a jury with only two blacks.

Lawmakers are still wrangling over the Racial Justice Act. After an attempt to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of changes that gutted the law, a special House committee has been set up to explore the topic of racial discrimination and how the death penalty is carried out in North Carolina – and to see if lawmakers can find a better strategy. We hope their discussions don’t repeat wrongheaded statements from some critics that the law allows death penalty inmates a “get-out-of-jail-free” card. The commutation tracks the language in Section 15A-2012 of the law, noting that if evidence of racial bias is found that the “death sentence imposed by judgment shall be vacated and the defendant resentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.”

A better way to deal with this issue is for the state to stop using the death penalty. So far, policymakers haven’t shown the courage to do so.

The public should keep pushing for that. But in the meantime, Judge Weeks is right to call for reforms in the death-penalty jury selection process if, as he ruled, in the Robinson case, it and other cases are tainted by racial bias. Without that, both the integrity of the courts and public faith in them are in jeopardy.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/04/23/3187798/judge-death-penalt
y-jury-reforms.html#storylink=cpy

Yep, bout time the US looked at the use of death penalty. For a country of people who don't like government power, its odd that you allow government the ultimate power of life and death.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012 11:46 PM

CATPIRATE

I've already read the bs in the paper. What I wanna know is why Michigan is telling NC how to pick there jurrors. Also no one says this is a racial killing. It's the fake yankees coming down south to save the black man. The 60s have been long over. In the early 90s there was rascism in CA more so than NC. I live in Nevada now and wouldn't want the Mormons from Utah putting there nose in my state's buisness. But the man is guilty. I don't see any justice for the teen that was killed or the family. Watching the black judge rule in favor of a killer shows me what it is about.

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Monday, April 23, 2012 4:40 AM

FREMDFIRMA

What annoys me about is it the idea Michigan has any room to talk when their rigged jury selection software has been under investigation for years (nothin got done cause the folks supposed to investigate it were in on it) the Detroit police are under like, what, five-six consent decrees which are universally ignored, and they've stripped the budget for a posh casino HQ while the damn firemen and paramedics don't even have working equipment...

I'm all for reforms in our so-called Justice system, but Michigan needs to clean their own house before bitching about the condition of anyone elses, yanno ?

-Frem

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Monday, April 23, 2012 4:48 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Whites who have never fought or been violated by the blacks either are fairies or live in Wisconsin.... It's the fake yankees coming down south to save the black man.

Again you give us excellent insight into the racist mind. Riona is right, only I wouldn't go that far back. I would say "the 1940s are calling..." You don't live in the real world, whoever you are.

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Monday, April 23, 2012 9:05 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

"I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther! And I will make them pay for what they've done!"

"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... YOU are locked in here with ME."

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Monday, April 23, 2012 9:13 AM

BYTEMITE

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Yep, bout time the US looked at the use of death penalty. For a country of people who don't like government power, its odd that you allow government the ultimate power of life and death.

Don't look at me, I think killing people is a waste of valuable potential, and the only reason I'm not filing imprisonment under that same heading is due to the sheer necessity of it in modern times.

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Monday, April 23, 2012 9:26 AM

BYTEMITE

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I live in Nevada now and wouldn't want the Mormons from Utah putting there nose in my state's buisness.

This peace treaty between our two states isn't going to last long. Soon, Utah, Montana, and Colorado will be at war with Nevada, California, and Arizona for control over the lakes and rivers and groundwater aquifers.

Unless the federal government gets onto its lofty perch, takes all the water resource rights, and rations it back to us since it's hard to shoot straight on account of the dehydration and heat stroke. But I think I'd actually prefer a civil war over that alternative. :/

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Monday, April 23, 2012 11:35 AM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Hi Cat, as an aside, I love it when people say "wax" in place of "whack" when referring to killing someone, I first heard Madeleine Stowe say it on Avenging Angelo and I've liked it, and said it when possible, ever since.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.

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Monday, April 23, 2012 1:26 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by CATPIRATE:
I've already read the bs in the paper. What I wanna know is why Michigan is telling NC how to pick there jurrors. Also no one says this is a racial killing. It's the fake yankees coming down south to save the black man. The 60s have been long over. In the early 90s there was rascism in CA more so than NC. I live in Nevada now and wouldn't want the Mormons from Utah putting there nose in my state's buisness. But the man is guilty. I don't see any justice for the teen that was killed or the family. Watching the black judge rule in favor of a killer shows me what it is about.

I'll bet you didn't mind a bit when the Mormons put their noses into California's business a couple years ago, though. ;)

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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