Comments on: Prosecutors Gone Wild http://texastough.com/2008/03/05/prosecutors-gone-wild/ The history of race, politics and criminal justice in Texas and beyond. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:49:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: mudlark http://texastough.com/2008/03/05/prosecutors-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-20 mudlark Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:25:17 +0000 http://texastough.com/2008/03/05/prosecutors-gone-wild/#comment-20 Bottom line: If you were a white college student from New England whose father was raised by a black family (making your putative grandparents black); or a white college student from New England whose father built a hospital in Africa and supported black education--what sort of fair hearing could you expect if you were falsely accused of raping a poor black woman in the South? For the answer, see Durham, 2006. (Being white and Yankee were all that mattered in that case; the evidence was irrelevant.) Bottom line: If you were a white college student from New England whose father was raised by a black family (making your putative grandparents black); or a white college student from New England whose father built a hospital in Africa and supported black education–what sort of fair hearing could you expect if you were falsely accused of raping a poor black woman in the South?

For the answer, see Durham, 2006.

(Being white and Yankee were all that mattered in that case; the evidence was irrelevant.)

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