I have a nephew that’s in court as I speak. He’s been brought up on “shaken baby syndrome” charges. By me being his uncle, yes I’m going to believe that he wouldn’t hurt a defenseless 2yr old. We tend to hate, “child abusers" and, I believe if he did do this horrible crime he should be punished. I have been to court each and every day and as I sit there looking around the courtroom I see an all-white jury that’s going to render a verdict ,prosecutors white, his public defender Is white and most of the spectators are white ,except for me and my family. The defendant is a black man with a petty criminal record, such as, getting caught with a nickel bag of weed. Parking tickets, nothing really bad. The victim is a 2yr old white girl whose mother is involved with my nephew; in fact they were living together in a town that’s predominately white when this crime took place. With everything I just stated I believe, (and the history of Massachusetts shows us) that my nephew facing an all white jury in a mostly all white town, with the alleged victim being white, Will not get a fair trial. In fact correct me if I’m wrong a black man has never been found "not guilty "of a crime against a white person in this state of Massachusetts.
I want to hear your comments and opinions on this.