No Impartial Trials in a Multicultural Society
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the acquittals of OJ Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson, and how they were done so not because of the facts of the case, but because of what they felt was an injustice done to Rodney King.
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Do you think that there are members of the jury that voted to acquit OJ because of Rodney King?
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Okay, so this is a jury member from the OJ Simpson trial basically stating that she acquitted OJ
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not looking at the facts of the actual case, but because of what she perceived as an injustice
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during the Rodney King events prior to that. Now, the Constitution of the United States says that
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we have the right to an impartial jury of our peers. This is only possible in an impartial
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society, which is impossible in a multicultural society. Statistically, black jurors find white
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defendants guilty 73% of the time, and black defendants guilty 24% of the time, which highlights
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this in-group preference like we see here in this video. But white jurors are statistically more fair
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in their judgments, finding black defendants guilty 32% of the time, and white defendants
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are guilty 39% of the time. And this shows, again, no in-group preference. In other words,
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if you want a just trial as a black man, you want a white jury. If you want a just trial
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as a white man, you also want a white jury.
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