Monday, June 25, 2018
"INFLUENCE & INJUSTICE: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE POWER OF PROSECUTORS"
The story is in the Florida Herald-Tribune, via the NACDL news scan:
In 2015 and 2016 alone — when she handled more than 100 felony drug cases — blacks received sentences that were nearly four times as long on average as those handed down to white offenders.
That put her at the top of a list of Duval County prosecutors’ racial disparities in sentencing for felony drug crimes, according to a nine-month investigation by the Herald-Tribune and the Florida Times-Union.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2018/06/influence-injustice-an-investigation-into-the-power-of-prosecutors.html