What is the impact of race discrimination in sentencing sentencing in criminal cases?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Johnson, 255 Cal.Rptr.3d 393, 453 P.3d 38, 8 Cal.5th 475 (Cal. 2019):

victim of a burglary and a car theft. (See People v. Turner (1986) 42 Cal.3d 711, 719, 230 Cal.Rptr. 656, 726 P.2d 102 [finding an inference of discrimination where the prosecutor struck the first two African Americans in the box: each had been a victim of crime, one had a friend who was a police officer, and the defendant was a member of the excluded group but his alleged victims were white].) She believed courts were fair in sentencing criminal defendants, at least in the cases with which she was

[453 P.3d 88]

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