RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 13, 2013 at 7:17 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2013 at 7:27 am by A Theist.)
(January 11, 2013 at 5:39 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Judging from history, I'd say wealth is a get out of jail free pass for crime. I mean, how many bankers went to jail for the housing crisis? How many Enron executives went to jail for that collapse? You want to know why OJ Simpson got off?Indeed....but that doesn't mean justice can't be tainted with either leftwing socio bias or with racial bias (or both) as well....
In the case of OJ Simpson, my opinion is that when you look at the socio / racial make up of the jury at his murder trial, it was race, not money that got Simpson off...
The jury by race consisted of 9 Blacks, 1 Hispanic, and 2 Whites....all jury members were Democrats....10 of the jury members were women, among whom were the only two white jury members....
Quote:Some other facts about the final jury: (1) None regularly read a newspaper, but eight regularly watch tabloid TV shows, (2) five thought it was sometimes appropriate to use force on a family member, (3) all were Democrats, (4) five reported that they or another family member had had a negative experience with the police, (5) nine thought that Simpson was less likely to be a murderer because he was a professional athlete.
The racial composition of the initial jury pool differed considerably from the racial compostion of the final jury. The pool was 40% white, 28% black, 17% Hispanic, and 15% Asian.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ft...ypage.html
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