Sentences with phrase «black defendants»

The algorithm was likely to indicate black defendants as «future criminals» at almost twice the rate as white defendants.
33 Looks Can Kill Black defendants are more likely to receive the death penalty.
«Furthermore, although the average sentence lengths (conditional on case, defendant and judge attributes) do not differ by defendant race in the absence of a football effect, it appears that an upset LSU football game loss increases the disposition length (sentence severity) of black defendants more severely in comparison to white defendants.
Thus, the burden of the emotional trauma generated by the upset loss seems to fall on black defendants
In fact, a ProPublica report found that the tool «was particularly likely to falsely flag black defendants as future criminals, wrongly labeling them this way at almost twice the rate as white defendants.
Although the COMPAS model was better than chance, it predicted recidivism in black defendants more commonly than for white defendants when it in fact had not occurred.
Her analyses have shown, for example, that black defendants with stereotypical «black» features are more likely to receive the death penalty in cases where victims are white.
«Black defendants face significantly more severe charges than whites even after controlling for criminal behavior (arrest offense, multiple - defendant case structure, and criminal history), observed defendant characteristics (e.g., age, education), defense counsel type, district, county economic characteristics, and crime rates.
Law enforcement officials have already been criticized, for example, for using computer algorithms that allegedly tag black defendants as more likely to commit a future crime, even though the program was not designed to explicitly consider race.
A solid Chadwick Boseman stars as the young trial lawyer, hired by the fledgling NAACP to represent black defendants believed to be innocent and framed because of the color of their skin.
It was commonplace that if you had a young, black defendant charged with drug possession, DC jurors were not going to send them to jail.
Then 18 - year - old, black defendant Timothy Tyrone Foster went on to be convicted of the murder of a white woman -LSB-...]
When black people don't serve on juries, we allow the biases of others to decide the fate of black defendants.
That somebody was Overton, who SWIS claims has been disproportionately tough on black defendants.
Other issues: COMPAS was twice as likely to flag black defendants as reoffenders, and it mislabeled as low risk white defendants who went on to commit additional crimes more often.
Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1850 - 1950 by Barrington Walker and published for the Osgoode Society by the University of Toronto Press.
A 2016 ProPublica investigation found that COMPAS, a tool used by many courtrooms to predict whether a criminal will break the law again, wrongly predicted that black defendants would reoffend nearly twice as often as it made that wrong prediction for whites.
Study after study has shown that black defendants are more likely than white ones to receive the death penalty.
Dressel's study found that people were just as likely as COMPAS to overstate re-arrest risks for black defendants and understate risks for white defendants — they incorrectly flagged black defendants as high risk 37.1 % of the time (compared to 40.4 %) and white defendants as low risk 40.3 % of the time (compared to 47.9 %).
White defendants were mislabeled as low risk more often than black defendants
The law states that once the defense has made an initial showing that jurors are being struck just because they are black and may sympathize with a black defendant, the prosecution must show that there were other legitimate reasons.
During contentious deliberations, the trial judge in U.S. v. Thomas dismissed Juror Number 5 — the only black juror in a trial of all black defendants — based on the belief that Juror Number 5 was engaging in jury nullification and would not convict the defendants under any circumstances.
And so the tenets of Posse Comitatus continued their long, strange journey, from the racist, hate - filled mind of William Gale to four black defendants on trial for their life in Baltimore federal court.
* Nor would it have been inconsistent with Swain for the trial judge to invalidate peremptory challenges of blacks if the prosecutor, in response to an objection to his strikes, stated that he struck blacks because he believed they were not qualified to serve as jurors, especially in the trial of a black defendant.
In Part II of its opinion, the Court held that the State's use of peremptory challenges to exclude blacks from a particular jury based on the assumption or belief that they would be more likely to favor a black defendant does not violate equal protection.
[*] This should have warned prosecutors that using peremptories to exclude blacks on the assumption that no black juror could fairly judge a black defendant would violate the Equal Protection Clause.
Even the Swain dissenters did not take issue with the majority's position that the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit the State from using its peremptory challenges to exclude blacks based on the assumption or belief that they would be partial to a black defendant.
The Court overturns the principal holding in Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 202 (1965), that the Constitution does not require in any given case an inquiry into the prosecutor's reasons for using his peremptory challenges to strike blacks from the petit jury panel in the criminal trial of a black defendant, and that, in such a case, it will be presumed that the prosecutor is acting for legitimate trial - related reasons.
Swain required the Court to decide, among other issues, whether a black defendant was denied equal protection by the State's exercise of peremptory challenges to exclude members of his race from the petit jury.
United States v. Newman, 549 F. 2d 240 (CA2 1977), the Equal Protection Clause forbids the prosecutor to challenge potential jurors solely on account of their race or on the assumption that black jurors as a group will be unable impartially to consider the State's case against a black defendant.
Although a prosecutor ordinarily is entitled to exercise [p80] peremptory challenges for any reason, as long as that reason is related to his view concerning the outcome of the case to be tried, the Equal Protection Clause forbids the prosecutor to challenge potential jurors solely on account of their race or on the assumption that black jurors as a group will be unable impartially to consider the State's case against a black defendant.
The Court now rules that such use of peremptory challenges in a given case may, but does not necessarily, raise an inference, which the prosecutor carries the burden of refuting, [p101] that his strikes were based on the belief that no black citizen could be a satisfactory juror or fairly try a black defendant.
the Equal Protection Clause forbids the prosecutor to challenge potential jurors solely... on the assumption that black jurors as a group will be unable impartially to consider the State's case against a black defendant.
Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1850 - 1950 — «In recent years legal historians have been increasingly interested in the social history of the law and in the law's impact on, among many other social phenomena, race relations.
That makes instances where, for example, they're used to determine recidivism rates — and black defendants are «falsely labeled future criminals at almost twice the rate of white defendants» with a 40 % chance of being wrong — more than a little unsettling.
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