Roman also found that Stand Your Ground laws tend to track the existing racial disparities in homicide convictions across the U.S. — with one significant exception: Whites who kill blacks in Stand Your Ground states are far more likely to be found justified in their killings. In non-Stand Your Ground states, whites are 250 percent more likely to be found justified in killing a black person than a white person who kills another white person; in Stand Your Ground states, that number jumps to 354 percent. pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/criminal-justice/is-there-racial-bias-in-stand-your-ground-laws/ Note one error in this article, Zimmerman did not invoke Stand Your Ground, apparently his lawyers thought ( correctly) that a jury could be swayed easier than a judge....
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:45:52 +0000
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