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Smith, who is originally from England and has been working in the South for seven years, also echoed Friedman's description of widespread racism in the judiciary...
Citing the first case she ever argued--the defense of a 35-year-old Black man accused of killing a white painter in rural Lafayette, Ala.--Friedman said that race often dominates capital cases in the South...
According to Friedman, many district attorneys try to strike Blacks from juries for racially-motivated reasons. She also said that both the judges and juries tend to take crimes against whites more seriously than crimes against Blacks...
...cases," said Friedman, "if you have a Black defendant and a white victim, it's a capital case...
...Friedman added that in order to get justice in Southern courts, defense attorneys often have "to dig up dirt" on judges and prosecuting attorneys, so they can use it as collateral against them...