Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law's lecture on Evidence Laws and their role of racism in the courtroom
Jeffrey E. Pfeifer, Reviewing the Empirical Evidence on Jury Racism: Findings of Discrimination or Discriminatory Findings, 69 Neb. L. Rev. 230 (1990).
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