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The entire point of my statistics is to show that there is judicial injustice based on race. I show the opposite of your assertion by comparing prison demograp

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > So either the Innocence Project is racially biased (DNA evidence) or our judicial system is racially biased. For some reason, I misread your post as arguing the former and implying the assumption that the latter was not true, but I can't for the life of me see why I did that looking back at it.
• pixl97 10y ago
  >The entire point of my statistics is to show that there is judicial injustice based on race. I don't believe you have enough information to show that with just racial information. A different study is needed that shows initial judicial justice based on dollars spent on defence. Essentially we need to know the likelihood of injustice based on each $10,000 spent on lawyers. If our findings show that defendants that spend larger amounts on their defense have a lower number unjust rulings then race is a lower factor and poverty is a larger factor. Since blacks in America are more apt to live in poverty, a simple black and white racial analysis will fail in showing causation.
  • kmkemp 10y ago
    Yes, you're right on that point. I suspect we would find that they are both large factors, though. Keep in mind that the statistics I showed actually undersell the prevalence since I compared the prison population to exonerations. Exonerations typically require DNA evidence and there are any number of crimes that can land you in prison where DNA evidence is a non-factor. Even the appeals process isn't immune from racial bias.