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A 6 page paper assessing one author’s view of racial and ethnic unfairness in the American system of criminal justice. Author and Georgetown law professor David Cole argues in his book, “No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System,” that the inequality inherent in our legal system originates not with those who enforce and carry out the laws, but rather with the decisions that emanate from the Supreme Court. Cole’s system of criminal justice is fair in its methods after an individual enters into it; it is the method of entry that preserves its inherent unfairness. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and Georgetown law professor David Cole argues in his book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, that the inequality inherent in our legal system
originates not with those who enforce and carry out the laws, but rather with the decisions that emanate from the Supreme Court. His
arguments first arouse opposition in the reader, but he argues his points well and uses solid logic. Eventually the reader has no choice but to agree, if not with
all his points, then at least with the basic ones. "Just Say No" Cole (2000) begins his work by insulting a large portion
of the population of the United States. We all learn in school that individual liberty is a basic premise on which the Constitution was based and on which the
country was formed. In Chapter 1 he relates the story of "Terrance Bostick, a twenty-eight-year-old black man" (Cole, 2000; p. 16) who was sleeping at the back of a
bus traveling between Miami and Atlanta. Police boarded the bus, asked to search his bag and he consented. The search revealed a one-pound package of cocaine; police were
amazed that Bostick consented to the search. The United States Supreme Court held that Bostick had the ability to refuse. Cole (2000)
argues at length that the Supreme Court supports individual rights in every other sense, but routinely has chosen to skirt the matter in cases involving voluntary searches. This is
a place that Cole (2000) appears to be losing his argument from the perspective of the reader: after all, all the man had to do was to respond to the
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