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A white Mississippi district attorney has resigned after more than 30 years on the job, during which he prosecuted a Black man six times in the shooting deaths of four
the closing arguments, the prosecution is trying to prove these defendants went after, chased arbery, killed him because he was black, and were it not for his race, this would not have happened. that is the essence of the hate crimes charged that these defendants face. this is not about the murder as it was in the state case. this is about motivation and why they did this. and also these are very serious charges. the first two counts, the hate crimes charges, essentially, carry a potential life in prison sentence with them if convicted. so, again, the jury of 12, 8 white jurors, 3 black jurors, one hispanic juror, have begun again and they are into their fourth hour of deliberations. it would be fascinating if they came to a decision so quickly. but i want to pick up on what ron just said about the whole idea of motivation because that s exactly why hate crimes can be notoriously hard to prove.
The Iowa Supreme Court has rejected a Black man’s argument that he was denied his right to an impartial jury because of a flawed process that excluded Black people and resulted in only white jurors.