North Carolina’s chief justice led the way. Now over a dozen state supreme courts and chief justices have addressed courts’ role in racial injustices.
WASHINGTON—As demonstrations after George Floyd’s killing in police custody unfolded across the nation last week, the chief justice of North Carolina weighed in with her own declaration—the first in a wave of extraordinary statements by jurists around the country.
“In our courts, African-Americans are more harshly treated, more severely punished and more likely to be presumed guilty,” Chief Justice Cheri Beasley said, standing in her Raleigh, N.C., courtroom.
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