"Your Honor, the dog ate my homework and I couldn't study for the test."
The state Supreme Court vacated rulings in four historic Racial Justice Act cases, saying the judge erred when he did not give prosecutors more time to respond to a statistical study about race in the North Carolina courts.
Under the short-lived Racial Justice Act, Weeks’ finding meant that the four death row inmates saw their sentences commuted to life in prison without a possibility for parole. Now the four will have to make their cases again.
They can "study" the statistics all they want, and it won't change the fact African-American jurors were removed at twice the rate as whites. Speaking of, the judge in question that was rebuked by the Supreme Court in this latest development is (wait for it) African-American himself, and prosecutors attempted to have him removed back in 2011 when these RJA cases were initially brought to court:
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