How Uncovering Bias Took A Black Man Off Death Row In NC
By Hayley Fowler
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Death Penalty Litigation tell Law360 about how approaching a criminal case like a civil suit helped them convince a state court judge that racial discrimination tainted Hasson Bacote's trial for felony murder, and got Bacote's death sentence vacated.