Quote:I really hope you are just purposely sugarcoating this, or it could be you are looking at things with a pre conceived notion.


Blacks and Latinos are sentences disproportionately because while they are more likely to be caputured, they often times come from improvished background who can't afford a decent lawyer, which in turn they are awarded an overworked public defender.


It's a easy cop out to associate gangs with blacks and Latinos but are you focusing on how the justice system handles these individuals from the youthful offender rate all the way until their adulthood. It's a systematic breakdown.


I visit the courthouse and others in surrounding countries I don't see many African Americans in court (for any offense) acting the way described in the article.

I can say pretty confidently that if people watch court for even a few days, they will see people of all kinds and backgrounds act astonishingly awful, ridiculous, hilarious, anti social, and flat out amazingly terrible.


Black, white...whatever.


It doesn't matter whether they or their family can afford whatever attorney you like, things like anti social tendencies, addiction, mental disease, and overall jerk-ism (work I just sent to Webster) apply to everyone.


As do violence, greed, irresponsibility etc..


To try to paint one group over another is just hilarious, and at the same time sad, to me.


I can think of dozens of examples that can make you laugh, shake your head, or vomit for everyone.


However, to say that you don't see that when you watch court means you don't go to court at all.


That's a good thing.....I often tell my clients that if they can keep the Duval County Courthouse out of their life, they'll definitely be better off.

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