Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 2004
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Rose v. Mitchell · 751 So. 2d 537 - Goodwin v. State · 520 So. 2d 1 - Robinson v. State · 652 So. 2d 354 - Powell v. Allstate Ins. Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“In the present case, the jurors were required to determine whether the homicide was justifiable. The race of the woman with whom the defendant had been conversing in the café earlier in the evening had nothing to do with the issue of his guilt or innocence. All the prosecutor needed to do to put the events in the proper context was to elicit a brief statement that the defendant was asked to leave because he was arguing with another patron. Nevertheless, he repeatedly emphasized that the woman in the café was a white woman and he repeatedly stressed the fact that the defendant had been making vulgar comments to her. These actions effectively invited the jury to make a decision based on a characterization of the defendant and not on the evidence of his guilt or innocence. Without even a pretense of relevancy the prosecutor managed to conjure up the image of a black man making rude and sexually offensive comments to a white woman. Some members of the defendant's all-white jury may have reacted negatively to this portrayal of the defendant, regardless of their views of the evidence. We are not suggesting that the jurors were affected by the prosecutor's appeal to racial prejudice merely because all of them are white. The point is that no jury should be exposed to an argument like the one made in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Our system of justice cannot tolerate an attempt to exploit these feelings of racial prejudice to the extent that they may exist among those who serve on juries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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