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NC RJA advances

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via Death Watch: The Racial Justice Act passed its final reading in the North Carolina House of Representatives by a vote of 61 to 53.  Due to differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill, it will now go back to the Senate, which can either agree to the House version or convene a committee to work out a compromise.  The Senate approved its version by a vote of 30 to 16 back in May. Sadly, but predictably, the CJLF’s propaganda wing blog has decided to decry this historic piece of legislation as nothing more than a “quota” system.  Oddly, the Racial Justice Act is just the opposite.  The law permits race to be a factor in deciding who lives and who dies as long as it is not a “signficant factor.” The burden is placed on the Defense to prove that race played a “signficant factor...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).