{"id":2046,"date":"2012-04-20T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2012-04-20T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:10:11","slug":"i-guess-some-folks-just-look-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"I guess some folks just look guilty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In cases with no blacks in the jury pool, blacks were convicted 81 percent of the time, and whites were convicted 66 percent of the time.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/today.duke.edu\/2012\/04\/jurystudy\">Duke-led study<\/a> on &#8220;The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2012\/04\/12\/john-mcneil\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+radleybalko+%28The+Agitator%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">John McNeil<\/a> case from Georgia and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1030\">Tyrus Coleman<\/a> case from Indiana. In both cases, the defendants were black, claimed self-defense, and were convicted for shootings that occurred on their own property. I don&#8217;t know about the McNeil case, but there were no blacks in the jury pool in the Coleman case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In cases with no blacks in the jury pool, blacks were convicted 81 percent of the time, and whites were convicted 66 percent of the time.&#8221; &#8212; Duke-led study on &#8220;The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials.&#8221; See the John McNeil case from Georgia and the Tyrus Coleman case from Indiana. In both cases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}