I am not from a country that uses juries, but your hypothetical situation probably happens daily already. You need only look at the statistics to see that being black (or to a lesser degree: being a man) significantly increases the odds of a guilty verdict in the USA. To stick to your drugs example, your white kid is more likely to have cocaine, and the black one crack. And one of these drugs has much more severe sentencing guidelines than the other...
> Right which is why I am saying jury nullification is bad. These situations happen because of it.
Please try to understand from my perspective.
I am trying to say the privileged won't even see trial.
If you are especially privileged, it won't even matter if you get convicted.
See the case of Michael Flynn.
Jury nullification cannot make the situation worse.
All it can do is expand the pool of people who won't have to suffer.
Remember, Congress is deadlocked.
I have no hope that we will get sensible repeals like repealing the nonsense "making false statements is a felony" [false].
> Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States,[1] even by merely denying guilt when asked by a federal agent.[2] A number of notable people have been convicted under the section, including Martha Stewart,[3] Rod Blagojevich,[4] Michael T. Flynn,[5] Rick Gates,[6] Scooter Libby,[7] Bernard Madoff,[8] and Jeffrey Skilling.[9]
This is the stupidest law I've ever heard of in my opinion.
To convict someone, you have to know they were lying.
If you can independently verify they were lying, how did their lying hurt the case?
Law enforcement just needs to do its job and not have stuff just handed to them in a silver platter.
Remember though, this common sense repeal will not happen in our lifetime.
What recourse do you have left?
