Comments on: First Ruling Under the Racial Justice Act http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/?p=3534 UNC School of Government Blog Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jay Chong http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/?p=3534&cpage=1#comment-9141 Jay Chong Mon, 07 May 2012 22:23:19 +0000 http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=3534#comment-9141 I think the proponents of the “racial justice act” chose the wrong test case to apply this new law. Saving a man who even the judge believes is guilty of kidnapping and murdering a teenager is not politically sound. http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2012/05/07/judge-reduces-penalty-death-row-inmate-racial-justice-act/

]]> By: Kurt Willems http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/?p=3534&cpage=1#comment-8849 Kurt Willems Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:16:36 +0000 http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=3534#comment-8849 I was happy to be one of the researchers who worked on the RJA study conducted by Michigan State under Professors O’Brien and Grosso. I am glad that the RJA is serving its purpose – equal protection under law.

Any criminal justice system that provides different sentences to different defendants when the circumstances and severity of their crimes are the same or very similar delegitimizes the process and subjects its citizens to arbitrary punishment.

I look forward to future posts on this subject. Thank you.

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