Ruling Under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act Says No One Should Be Sent to Death Because of Racial Bias
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012. A North Carolina judge Friday issued a landmark decision finding intentional and systemic discrimination by state prosecutors against African-American potential jurors in capital cases and commuted the sentence of a death-row prisoner to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The decision on behalf of Marcus Robinson by North Carolina Superior…
