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MA; Supreme Judicial Court allows use of statistical evidence of racial profiling

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

SJC allows use of statistical evidence of racial profiling By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press 05/21/2008 Daily Hampshire Gazette BOSTON - Drivers who are stopped by police and suspect racial profiling can use statistical information to make their case, and if they prove it, evidence seized during the stop should be thrown out, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday. The Supreme Judicial Court said that defendants can compare the racial composition of people stopped by police along a certain read more

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).