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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 447298" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>People assume pretty white woman (emphasis on pretty) are not capable of murder unless they are caught in the act. The fact that Scott Peterson had the same type of circumstantial evidence as Casey's case is indicative of this. The defense attorney could have said, "There was NO proof Scott killed Lacy. Amber was lying. It's obvious that Amber, the jealous girlfriend, killed Lacy."</p><p></p><p>But it wouldn't have worked because Scott is the man and Amber is the woman. Any defense attorney can turn the truth around in a circumstantial case. Yet the man still has a fair chance of being convicted and a pretty white woman probably will go free. I still believe if Casey was black or hispanic she also would have been convicted. I have minority children and racism isn't dead by a long shot. And, of course, it IS true that gender is a factor in certain crimes. I think, for the most part, the justice system is harder on men than women and harder on blacks than whites. I'm very unhappy with our jury system. Let's face it...the most educated people don't want to waste time on a long murder case. What's left is not our best and brightest.</p><p></p><p>I was appalled at how unintelligent the jury sounded. They didn't seem to understand the forensics science or Judge Perry's instruction about circumstantial evidence. Oh, well. I love true crime and there's an intriguing and bonechilling crime in California. Millionaire's son was killed allegedly after he fell down the stairs (hmmmmmmmmmm) and his girlfriend was found hung two days later, hands and feet bound together. I'm keeping an eye on this crime now, wondering what is really going on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 447298, member: 1550"] People assume pretty white woman (emphasis on pretty) are not capable of murder unless they are caught in the act. The fact that Scott Peterson had the same type of circumstantial evidence as Casey's case is indicative of this. The defense attorney could have said, "There was NO proof Scott killed Lacy. Amber was lying. It's obvious that Amber, the jealous girlfriend, killed Lacy." But it wouldn't have worked because Scott is the man and Amber is the woman. Any defense attorney can turn the truth around in a circumstantial case. Yet the man still has a fair chance of being convicted and a pretty white woman probably will go free. I still believe if Casey was black or hispanic she also would have been convicted. I have minority children and racism isn't dead by a long shot. And, of course, it IS true that gender is a factor in certain crimes. I think, for the most part, the justice system is harder on men than women and harder on blacks than whites. I'm very unhappy with our jury system. Let's face it...the most educated people don't want to waste time on a long murder case. What's left is not our best and brightest. I was appalled at how unintelligent the jury sounded. They didn't seem to understand the forensics science or Judge Perry's instruction about circumstantial evidence. Oh, well. I love true crime and there's an intriguing and bonechilling crime in California. Millionaire's son was killed allegedly after he fell down the stairs (hmmmmmmmmmm) and his girlfriend was found hung two days later, hands and feet bound together. I'm keeping an eye on this crime now, wondering what is really going on. [/QUOTE]
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