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The Burden Of Brown: Thirty Years Of School Desegregation, Michigan Law Review
The Burden Of Brown: Thirty Years Of School Desegregation, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation by Raymond Wolters
Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Michigan Law Review
Racial prejudice has come under increasingly close scrutiny during the past thirty years, yet its influence on the decisionmaking of criminal juries remains largely hidden from judicial and critical examination. In this Article, Professor Johnson takes a close look at this neglected area. She first sets forth a large body of social science research that reveals a widespread tendency among whites to convict black defendants in instances in which white defendants would be acquitted. Next, she argues that none of the existing techniques for eliminating the influence of racial bias on criminal trials adequately protects minority-race defendants. She contends that …