Are you guilty of making judgments of off initial appearance? Maybe its an unconscious bias, but this discrimination in a court case can cause the defendants an undeserved sentence or in some cases death! 4% of death row inmates are likely innocent and over 1,500 people have died being wrongfully executed. Systemic Racism and Implicit Bias is one of the main causes of wrongful convictions in court, and mainly come from the uneducated members of the jury. The extremely high risk of jury tampering consisting of threats, bribery and intimidation can also advance to a later miscarriage of justice. It is undoubtedly comprehensible that bias jurors make decisions based on their views of the race, gender or religion of the defendant, usually resulting in a damaging aftermath when the views are passed through onto the final say by the judge, who considers what is said by the jury when making the life changing decision of another. Jurors can convict someone based on their discriminative judgment, not the facts and evidence involved in the case
or provided by a lawyer. Curtis Flowers case was found to be racially biased as Attorney Doug Evans removed as many African-American jurors as he could which resulted in evidence of racially motivated decisions, he was later sentenced to death. Curtis Flowers was deprived of a fair and equal trial. The same prejudice conviction took place in 1987 to a man called Timothy Foster, this led to an impotent trial. Researchers at Michigan State University discovered that African American prisoners who were sentenced for murder are about 50% more likely to be innocent than other convicted murderers and spend longer in prison before exoneration. The Supreme Court denounce the recurring evil of racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system, in the case of a Hispanic man convicted of sex charges that a jurors racist comments during deliberations. The Mexican man convicted was called Miguel Pena Rodriguez and a member of the jury aimed racist and bigotry comments including he did it because hes Mexican, and Mexican men take whatever they want.