Michael Schiffmann: "The Distortion of Statistics for Political Goals"

Posted on April 24, 2008. This article is an analysis of the rejection of another defense claim, the so-called Batson claim, by the 3rd Court of Appeals. The court's decision in this point flies in the face of logic, rationality, and, as I show, statistical facts supplied by the defense plus additional statistical facts that are retrievable from the record and support the defense claim that either an new trial or at least a new evidentiary hearing must be ordered because of the appearance of racial bias of the prosecutor during the jury selection process at Mumia Abu-Jamal's 1982 trial.

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