最高裁判所 hears whether death 宣告，判決 carried 人種差別主義者 taint
The 最高裁判所 直面するs the 問題／発行する of 人種差別主義 Wednesday in reviewing a 20-year-old 死刑 事例／患者 伴う／関わるing a 黒人／ボイコット 被告 whose race was given as a 推論する／理由 for considering him a danger to society.
The 事例／患者 of Duane Buck, who was 宣告，判決d to death in Texas in 1997, comes to the fore まっただ中に an 激しい 国家の 審議 over 人種差別主義 in 法律 施行 after a wave of police 殺人，大当りs of 黒人／ボイコット 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs.
Buck's 事例／患者 転換s the スポットライト to racial prejudice in the US judicial system, with the 最高裁判所 供給するing a high profile 会議 for arguments over the way 事例／患者s 伴う／関わるing 黒人／ボイコット 被告s are 扱う／治療するd.
Duane Buck 's 事例／患者 転換s the スポットライト to racial prejudice in the US judicial system, with the 最高裁判所 供給するing a high profile 会議 for arguments over the way 事例／患者s 伴う／関わるing 黒人／ボイコット 被告s are 扱う／治療するd ?Alex Wong (Getty/AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
There is no question about Buck's 犯罪 in the 残虐な 1995 殺すing of his former lover and the man he 設立する her with.
But the 法廷，裁判所 challenge 中心s not on the ultimate 罰 itself, but on how the 陪審／陪審員団 decided on the 死刑 in Buck's 事例／患者.
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"What this 事例／患者 is really about," said Sam Pital, a 合法的な 専門家, "is whether or not the 法廷，裁判所 is going to 許す Texas to 追求する an 死刑執行 where the 資本／首都 宣告，判決ing 訴訟／進行 was fundamentally tainted by いわゆる 専門家 証言 that the 被告, Mr Duane Buck, was more deserving of a death 宣告，判決 because he is 黒人／ボイコット."
Under Texas 法律, a person cannot be 非難するd to death unless the 検察官，検事 証明するs that he or she 提起する／ポーズをとるs a 未来 danger to society.
Today, Buck has an impressive 弁護 team, 含むing lawyers from the NAACP, the nation's 主要な 黒人／ボイコット civil 権利s group.
But at the time of his 有罪の判決, he was 代表するd by two 法廷，裁判所-任命するd lawyers, one of whom, Jerry Guerinot, had a dismal 記録，記録的な／記録する.
Guerinot had won 無 無罪放免s over the course of his career and had no より小数の than 20 （弁護士の）依頼人s who were 宣告，判決d to death.
During the 宣告，判決ing 審理，公聴会, Guerinot used a pseudo psychologist 指名するd Walter Quijano as an 専門家 証言，証人／目撃する. Quijano told the 法廷，裁判所 Buck 現在のd a higher 危険 of recidivism because he was 黒人／ボイコット.
Buck's defenders say the 人種差別主義者 仮定／引き受けること 含む／封じ込めるd in Quijano's 主張 tainted the 陪審／陪審員団, 侵害する／違反するing the 被告's 憲法の 権利 to a public 裁判，公判 by an impartial 陪審／陪審員団.
Besides 存在 認容できない, Quijano's 予測 was "patently 誤った," said Kate 黒人／ボイコット, one of Buck's lawyers.
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She says Buck has not had a 選び出す／独身 disciplinary infraction since his 宣告，判決ing.
"He has a spotless disciplinary 記録，記録的な／記録する. And that's really remarkable," she said. "On （刑務所の）死刑囚棟, inmates are routinely written up for trivial things like 辞退するing to shave, having too many postage stamps, putting pictures of art or photos on the 塀で囲む or windows, 辞退するing to にわか雨 on a given day."
Buck was 宣告，判決d in Texas' Harris 郡, which accounts for nine パーセント of all US 死刑執行s, a 記録，記録的な／記録する の中で the more than 3,000 US 郡s.
A University of Maryland 熟考する／考慮する 設立する that between 1992 and 1999, Harris 郡 検察官，検事s were three times more likely to 捜し出す the death 宣告，判決 for a 黒人／ボイコット 被告 than a white one, and 賠審員s were twice as likely to 宣告，判決 a 黒人／ボイコット person to death.
The 明言する／公表する of Texas 最小限に減らすs the importance of Quijano's 証言, 競うing that Buck would have been 非難するd to death anyway in light of the 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s against him.
Under Texas 法律, a person cannot be 非難するd to death unless the 検察官，検事 証明するs that he or she 提起する／ポーズをとるs a 未来 danger to society ?Scott Halleran (Getty/AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
