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magistrate, the Dutch men
were found guilty, beaten and
given an additional four years
of servitude. Punch, however,
was sentenced to remain a servant
for life, This case became
the legal precedent sanctioning
slavery in America.
The second >case, In Re:
Hannah Warwick was also
heard in Virginia. I he
magistrate, in 1669, ruled that
Ms. Warwick, a white servant,
was immune to prosecution
because her case "extenuated
because she was overseen by a
Negro overseer." Ms Warwick
was guilty of some infraction,
probably stealing, but was
able to escape punishment
because the individual she was
bound to obey was an AfricanAmerican.
Commenting 300
years later, Judge A. Leon
Higgenbotham wrote, 4tAt
that time, the clear inference
... is that the society was more
in making surejhat
(African-Americans) did noT~
exercise authority over whites
than in prosecuting the infractions
of Hannah Warwick."
In 1857, Supreme Court
Chief Justice .Roger Taney
wrote the majority opinion for
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the famous Dred Scott case
which involved slave Dred
Scott's belief that once his
master took him over the state
line into free territory, he was
a free man. Taney, however,
wrote that "the Negro was so
far inferior that they had no
rights which the white man
was bound to respect."
Throughout history, race
played a dominant role in
allowing white defendents to
walk away scott- free -after
threatening, maiming or
murdering African-Americans
and other minorities. The men
who allegedly killed 14-yearold
Emmett Till for complementing
a white woman,
were found innocent, despite
overwhelming evidence of
their guilt.
. The Ku Klux Klanners who
burned that Alabama church
with eight children in it never
came to trial.
In New York's Howard
beach sectioii sewal months
ago, a policeman's son and
couTt employee, ran over an
African-American running
from a mob of drunken
teenagers. He died on the
highway. The driver claimed
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tire. The police didn't give him
so much as a traffic ticket for
leaving the scene of an accident.
The drunk teens walked
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expectation that four young
(African-American) males are
going to harass you is indeed
greater than four whites."
Goetz's attorney, Barry
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Slotnick, dismissed charges of
racism and stated, "the jury*
did what was proper and approprfate.
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four victims had prior delinquent
histories and were carrying
sharpened screwdrivers
when they were shot down.
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acquittal. He said the
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But every lawyer knows and
every juror is told that law is
based on facts presented and
on speculation. You canshoot
people just because A you
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Also, having prior juvenile
records is no excuse for getting
one's constitutional and civil
rights forfeited. During his
celebrated investigation and
John Gotti, .
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his constitutional rights. After
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