Mccleskey V. Kemp Summary

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The Supreme Court case of McCleskey v. Kemp was about Warren McCleskey a African-American man who was convicted, and sentenced to the death penalty by a jury armed robbery, and killing a white police officer who was on duty. The reason for the controversy in the case was that African-American who were convicted of killing Caucasians were much more likely to be sentenced to the death penalty in a court of law than when the roles were reversed. Also defendant accused of killing an African-American were also less likely to be sentence to death.

The way that the McCleskey v. Kemp relates to racial biases according to Mauer’s article “African-American, and the Criminal Justice System” is that Mauer also gives examples where the criminal justice
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