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Funbazooka posted...

Why are you assuming his race has anything to do with this?

Because all-white juries are statistically more likely to make errors in the prosecution's favor and yield guilty verdicts on unrealistic charges. Inclusion of a single minority juror tends to produce a strong mitigating effect. I'll provide a bibliography in a moment.

E:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/127/2/1017/1826107

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-904597.pdf

E 2.0: Spent more time looking for this one than I should have, was by same prof. Not available for public access, but Sommers is a bro and posts it on his own website.

http://www.ase.tufts.edu/psychology/sommersLab/documents/raceInterSommers2008.pdf
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