S5E1 Is Hood Justice Equal Justice
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History has proven one’s bias or conscious indifference towards another based upon ethnicity social status or income can and does materially affect how they see those before them as they sit in judgment in a juror’s box. In this episode I define Hood Justice and how it was first applied towards Native Americans and how it’s sending blacks to prison at an alarming rate today. How do we slow that pace, by advocating for jury pools that resemble the hood that an accused is from be it ethically socially or economically.
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