NEW YORK, Feb. 7 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund posted the following news: * * * North Carolina Judge Finds Racial Bias in Death Penalty... CONTACT: Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Emily Berkowitz, ACLU, eberkowitz@aclu.org Keisha Williams, ACLU-NC, kmwilliams@acluofnc.org Kristin Collins, The Center for Death Penalty Litigation, kristin@cdpl.org RALEIGH, N.C. - In a landmark case, a North Carolina judge ruled today that  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., posted the following news release: * * * North Carolina Judge Finds Racial Bias in Death Penalty in Landmark Case RALEIGH, N.C. - In a landmark case, a North Carolina judge ruled today that race played an impermissible role in jury selection for Hasson Bacote, a Black man who cha  more