armstrong and mcclesky

If you are confused or upset about Ferguson and the other police shootings.  This book is a MUST READ. You really dont know what you think you know.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCleskey_v._Kemp  - "The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to overturn the guilty verdict without showing a "racially discriminatory purpose."

HINT: just because the behaviour is INSANELY biased aka 10 times as many blacks as white, you have to show EXPLICIT racial bias AKA the cop calling the person a racial name or an email saying arrest all the black.  Which means you never get to use racial BIAS in court.

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_prosecution - armstrong 1996 - White drug offenders get sent to state court, and get short sentences, black drug offenders get sent to federal court and crazy long sentences. on the order of a 100 to 1.  In Anderson, SCOTUS ruled that you have to have evidence of bias in order to request discovery of the DA office.  Strange, the DA office has the evidence of the bias, but you cant get it.

TRUST ME ON THIS, I have a friend who works criminal defense in federal court. he is fighting this. TODAY. Literally. He cant even get the data to prove that the DA is biased.

So when you wonder why Justice didnt bring a case against Ferguson, this is why. They would have lost.