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Conversations that are still very difficult. and the conversation continues tonight with data on sentencing for federal crimes and race. from december of 2007 to december 2011, sentences for black male offenders were 19.5% longer, accounting for a string of factors such as type of defense, education level and more. joining us now is charles blow, writing the entire system failed trayvon martin long before his confrontation with george zimmerman, sunny hostin, jeffrey toobin, and for his first cnn town hall not involved with competing republican candidates, newt gingrich, the former house speaker. appreciate all of you being with us. i want to introduce everybody to a very special guest we have, raymond santana, one of the so-called central park five whose convictions were vacated. he was vindicated after serving ....

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