[quote=squat300]What if the white teen was only in the neighborhood to help a disabled black kid as part of a big brother program? Change anything? I know you think the black guy here with the unregistered gun was within his rights to chase down the white teen who looked out of place…,but do you think the black guys trial odds look good?
Appeals courts reverse only a tiny percentage of cases and only deal with legal errors not issues of fact, which are for the jury to decide.[/quote]
The trial odds, at least in Florida, aren’t near as good for the black defendant as the white defendant, if he ends up with an all white jury. A single African American on the jury, and his odds are about the same.
