A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who ...
A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias ...
A groundbreaking, history making jury of mostly women and minorities is selected for the trial. Up to the time of People v. Newton, most murder trails were comprised of 12 white men. Black people ...
American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ...
Jury nullification is the term for when a jury ... However, during the Jim Crow era, some juries in the South declined to convict White people who were accused of killing Black people, most ...
Erick Hunt and Richard Norman III were sentenced for the murder of Anthony Oatis and the armed robbery of Garrett White.