PROSECUTORIAL CRIMES AND CORRUPTION: THE (WHITE) ELEPHANT IN THE COURTROOM
This article is from the Childress Lecture Series and part of the St. Louis University Law Journal publication (Summer 2017). Also included are articles from Stephen B. Bright, Stephen Hanlon, Brandon Buskey, Michael Barrett, Norman Lefstein, Sean D. O’Brien, Mark E. Olive, Cynthia Short, Alexander L. Ledbetter and Mary K. Mullen.
The Discovery Flight program is free and introduces young people from 8-18 years old to flying and the history of famed Black Airmen.
CORE’s just demand was to hire four employees to address the racist hiring practices in St. Louis banking institutions. When the bank’s response was that there were not “four Blacks in the city” fit for such jobs, CORE launched a protest that became the longest and most contentious in St. Louis civil rights history.
When the matter of wrongful convictions is discussed, you may hear the frequently cited theory by Sir William Blackstone: it is better that ten guilty people go free than one innocent person suffer. The English legal scholar formulated the theory in 1765 and it became the basis for the noble idea that one is innocent until proven guilty.
