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Re: Michael Dunn found guilty of 1st-degree murder in loud-music trial
Those are a lot of general statements, but fair enough IMO. And if someone wants to make a general case about occasional or frequent abuses by prosecutors, I'm not going to disagree, but from getting stopped by police, then potentially going in front of a prosecutor who decides whether to press charges, and if charged in front of a judge and jury, I would rather be a white male than any other possible demographic in the U.S. in every single step of that process.
And Crue Cab made this explicitly about race, and I was responding to his very SPECIFIC claim, not the more general claim you're presenting - this statement, "Shoot a black person as a white person your odds of claiming SD and prevailing are zero."
Really?
While overall conviction statistics, by sheer number of convictions, would suggest folks are getting railroaded, as well as studies that show some folks cop to crimes they haven't committed, as well as the Innocence Project showing that folks are convicted when they haven't committed a crime, I don't think any one has ever done a study to see if this is happening specifically to white folks.
But if it is happening to black folks, then it is happening to folks who aren't black as well, which would include white folks.
Btw, the Innocence Project on it's own says your assertion is false.
It isn't that someone is out to railroad anybody, it is the nature of the system.
Once a person is accused, the deck is stacked against them. No matter their race.
Those are a lot of general statements, but fair enough IMO. And if someone wants to make a general case about occasional or frequent abuses by prosecutors, I'm not going to disagree, but from getting stopped by police, then potentially going in front of a prosecutor who decides whether to press charges, and if charged in front of a judge and jury, I would rather be a white male than any other possible demographic in the U.S. in every single step of that process.
And Crue Cab made this explicitly about race, and I was responding to his very SPECIFIC claim, not the more general claim you're presenting - this statement, "Shoot a black person as a white person your odds of claiming SD and prevailing are zero."