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Posted On: 08/14/2023 2:15:53 PM
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The GA RICO statute is karma coming home to roost, bigly.
As legal scholar Norm Eisen observed in that same interview with The New Yorker, "Georgia created its RICO statute in 1980, less to target the Mafia than to go after Black street gangs and “nontraditional conspiracies.”"
The legislature wrote the law very broadly and armed prosecutors with the ability to target African American defendants, sometimes unduly harshly, for being just low-level pawns in a much bigger, criminal operation.
Similarly, Georgia has one of the harshest clemency and parole processes of any state. This again has fallen disproportionately upon Black inmates in the state, who can’t even hope to seek any reprieve until they’ve served a significant portion of their sentences.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/georgia-rico...dium=email
Privileged White folks might be going to prison - there is a mandatory five-year minimum sentence - for violating a statute aimed at Black people. Karma's a mofo.
As legal scholar Norm Eisen observed in that same interview with The New Yorker, "Georgia created its RICO statute in 1980, less to target the Mafia than to go after Black street gangs and “nontraditional conspiracies.”"
The legislature wrote the law very broadly and armed prosecutors with the ability to target African American defendants, sometimes unduly harshly, for being just low-level pawns in a much bigger, criminal operation.
Similarly, Georgia has one of the harshest clemency and parole processes of any state. This again has fallen disproportionately upon Black inmates in the state, who can’t even hope to seek any reprieve until they’ve served a significant portion of their sentences.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/georgia-rico...dium=email
Privileged White folks might be going to prison - there is a mandatory five-year minimum sentence - for violating a statute aimed at Black people. Karma's a mofo.
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