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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 ....
This was not a case with eyewitnesss. this was not a case where it was clear who the aggressor was. the only person who knows for a fact is george zimmerman because trayvon martin is not alive. there was not an eyewitness who saw the initial confrontation. that s right. so in the weeds where i dwell, away from the larger themes, this verdict makes a certain amount of sense to me. now, how you fit that into the larger dynamic of race it fits with five white jurors and a hispanic. it makes perfect sense. why was there not an african-american person on that jury? i get that tweet all day long from people. can you explain that? i can explain that the jurors got seated in the order in which they were questioned. we were attempting to exercise two preemptories. the case law is very complicated by challenges. the court had us receipt two of the white female jurors, which did not allow us to get to the back row. as you know, there were two african-american females that we kept on t ....
Think it s important to recognize that the african-american community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn t go away. president obama spoke for nearly 20 minutes, acknowledging the effects of crime, outlining ways as he sees it of making the justice system operate more fairly and asking all americans to get involved, which makes a great jumping off point for our town hall. take a look. good evening and welcome to a 360 town hall, race and justice in america. tonight, a conversation sparked by the killing of trayvon martin, and the acquittal of george zimmerman. but it s a conversation rooted deep in american history. for 2 1/2 centuries, the subject has changed from slavery to jim crow to voting rights. ....
Has changed from slavery to jim crow, to poll taxes and voting rights. even as the issue of balls, this team stays constant. namely whether justice applies differently and is seen differently depending on skin color. race, justice, who we are as americans. it is an important conversation coming up with a distinguished voice is. first case that brought us here. el homicide could be called retain but at first the shooting that occurred on a late february night in a small town in central florida didn t make national headlines. what is your emergency, please fire or medical? and armed teenager was shot and killed by a volunteer never a watchman with hopes of becoming a policeman. the teenager, he had attacked him. please quickly responded and soon george zimmerman was being led inside the sanford police department for questioning. but in the days after the shooting it became clear there would be no immediate formal charges. it became just as clear the death of trayvon martin was ....
To do with the raise of the defendant or the victim. we look at the evidence, the proof, and who was the victim. you don t believe in our justice system not the race. you don t believe in our justice system there are inherent bases, from who gets stopped more often by police to the way people perceive other people without realizing it? i saw studies which analyzed jury verdicts in florida from 2000 to 2010, all-white juries convict african-american defendants 16% more than white defendants. and if you have one black juror, that inequity goes away. we don t see that the way it s being pour trade. jurors tend to listen to the evidence and vote on that evidence. we ve had all white juries convict white people of killing blacks. ....