Commentary
Harsher Sentences for Black Defendants Claiming Self-Defense
Guest Commentator
When juries fail to reflect the diversity of the communities they serve, those biases emerge to the detriment of other non-White defendants, particularly Black defendants, who are often saddled with abnormally unjust sentences.
Nineteen-year-old Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murder on June 9 and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison for fatally stabbing seventeen-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high…
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