[tdehnel]

So it could very well be more than half.

[flangola7]

Doubtful. Whites have more wealth and better lawyers.

[talldatethrow]

Oh yes, thousands of murders a year dismissed by clever lawyers! Thousands!

[shadowgovt]

The scarier possibility is "thousands of wrongful convictions due to ineffective representation."

... scarier and hard to discount.

[chii]

And it is imho better for 9 murderers to walk free and prevent 1 wrongful conviction, than to have 1 wrongful conviction to keep 9 murderers off the streets.