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• Mandatory sentencing and racial disparity: assessing the role of prosecutors and the effects of Booker

  Authors:Sonja B. Starr and M. Marit RehaviFrom:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 123, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 201321,281 words Article 1580LIII. THE BOOKER QUESTION: DOES EXPANDING JUDICIAL DISCRETION INCREASE RACIAL DISPARITY? The discussion above illustrates the serious limitations of an empirical approach that focuses on the sentencing decision in...

• Retrying race

  Author:Anthony V. AlfieriFrom:Michigan Law Review (Vol. 101, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 200329,131 words Article INTRODUCTION This Essay investigates the renewed prosecution of long-dormant criminal and civil rights cases of white-on-black racial violence arising out of the 1950s and 1960s. The study is part of an ongoing...