POLS 4720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Misdemeanor
19 Apr 2018
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The united states charges blacks with a death-eligible offense more than twice as often as it charges whites a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g death penalty defendants, the united states enters plea bargains with whites almost twice as often as it does with (cid:271)la(cid:272)ks. (cid:863) Following discovery of a large and violent crack cocaine conspiracy, the united states. Attorney indicted 25 persons, all of whom are african american. Of the 55 unindicted persons who were involved in the conspiracy, 50 are african american and five are white. Twenty-five african americans were granted immunity from prosecution as were three whites. Defendant sterling moved to dismiss the indictment, claiming that he had been selected for prosecution because of his race. He argued that the five unindicted white persons were similarly situated to him and that more than 90% of those indicted in the metro area since 1992 for crack cocaine trafficking are african .
