Sentences with phrase «of black defendants»

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.

When black people don't serve on juries, we allow the biases of others to decide the fate of black defendants.

«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.

Not exact matches

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

Thus, the burden of the emotional trauma generated by the upset loss seems to fall on black defendants.»

The jury convicted all defendants on three counts of mail fraud, and Black nabbed an additional conviction on obstruction of justice.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

At this meeting, Parker (a defendant) was dismissive of Hayes» complaints of disparate treatment of black and white guests of the arena.

The federal courts found the Grand Street projects themselves, run by Silver allies, discriminated against black and Latino applicants in a suit that named Ralph Lippman, the father of the chief judge, as a defendant.

Mixed race suspects were more likely to be sent to court than given a police disposal; Black and mixed race defendants were more likely to be remanded in custody prior to their hearing date; Black defendants had a higher chance of being acquitted than white ones, suggesting that different standards of evidence may be applied to cases involving different groups of defendants; Mixed race teenagers were more likely than others to be given a (more serious) community sentence than a (less onerous) first tier penalty or referral order.

Eberhardt found that 57.5 percent of defendants rated as stereotypically black (with traits including darker skin and a broader nose) had received the death penalty, compared with only 24.4 percent of those judged less stereotypically black.

After gathering photos of defendants eligible for the death penalty, all convicted in Philadelphia between 1979 and 1999, Stanford University psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt and her team asked students to rate how «stereotypically black» each person looked.

Truth be told, the only thing Colin was guilty of was being born poor and black in the inner - city, which meant he was very vulnerable to a criminal justice system totally indifferent to the plight of an innocent, indigent, African - American defendant.

, continued with «Indeed, it would be nice to think one day that there would be a Climate Nuremberg», and ended with «The climate alarmist industry has some very tough questions to answer: preferably in the defendant's dock in a court of law, before a judge wearing a black cap», which implies a sentence of death.

Mr. Chamberlin moved from Steamboat Springs, Colorado to Phoenix, Arizona in 1985, where his practice primarily focused on insurance defense while with the firm of Black, Robertshaw & Copple, P.C.. On behalf of defendants, Mr. Chamberlin tried numerous commercial, construction, homeowner's association, fire loss and commercial trucking defense cases to defense verdicts.

In finding that the defendant was completely liable for the accident, the judge considered the fact that witnesses at the scene of the accident neither observed black ice on the road, nor did they observe themselves or others slipping on any ice on the road.

Interestingly, jurors from ethnic communities, including black and Asian jurors, were also shown to align more with the defendant when compared to those who identify as white British, suggesting a greater likelihood of a not guilty verdict.

The lawsuit also names as defendants Eric S. Buchanan, who is a lawyer for the W. Harold Flowers Law Society in Little Rock, an association of black lawyers in Arkansas; the society itself; and the local chapter of the Black Law Students Associablack lawyers in Arkansas; the society itself; and the local chapter of the Black Law Students AssociaBlack Law Students Association.

In the Shadrach Rescue Cases, for example, government failed in five consecutive trials to convict any defendant — black or white — of aiding in the escape of Shadrach Minkins.

Plaintiff slipped on a ribbon of black ice on defendant's parking lot.

In a statement on Wednesday, Daifallah said Black and the defendants had entered into a memorandum of understanding to resolve these legal actions as well as others in the United States.

Additionally, the offset for Asian defendants turned out to be a little less than half that of Black, Native, and Hispanic defendants.

In other words, ProPublica discovered a double bias in COMPAS, one in favour of white defendants, and one against black defendants.

In neither Reeves or K. (A.) were the defendants» race (they were all black) ever part of the consideration for exclusion under 24 (2).

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.

They say stuff about him hating black people and, really, what's the probative value of that in a case where the defendant had no apparent motive other than racial animus?

This week the United States Supreme Court accepted for consideration the case of Foster v. Humphrey, regarding Georgia prosecutors» use of peremptory challenges to strike every black juror in the jury pool in the defendant's case.

And because the case - specific use of peremptory challenges by the State does not deny blacks the right to serve as jurors in cases involving nonblack defendants, it harms neither the excluded jurors nor the remainder of the community.

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.

Then 18 - year - old, black defendant Timothy Tyrone Foster went on to be convicted of the murder of a white woman -LSB-...]

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 judge, and the defendant, were both black Nova Scotians community, and the comment that racial profiling may have played a role was charged, but likely informed as a matter of fact and knowledge of the social fabric from that community.

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.

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.

«Dr. Black's testimony and his reports are clear that it is his opinion that a «state of alienation» exists as between the boys and the Defendant....

From 1985 to 1988, defendant ran nearly thirty - five ads in The New York Times, none of which depicted black models.