An angle he never imagined

[wendyzski]

My sense of justice is quite tickled today.

If you watch the news, you may have seen that an arrest has finally been made in a murder case from 1964. Two black teenagers were beaten and then tied to an engive block and thrown into the river to drown. The suspect, now 71, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Today he stood before a judge and was formally charged with the crime.

The judge is a black woman.

I am amused, and pleased.

Comments

[stormdog.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I worried, at first seeing your post, that as satisfactory as such a trial must be, that the defendant may not be getting a fair and impartial trial under such a judge.

My mate pointed out to me that, while jury selection is often influenced by background of the potential jurors, a judge is would probably be considered effectively impartial just because she (or he) is really a professional. I guess that makes sense.

That said, I hope that, if this is actually the guilty party, that he ends up in a world of very public hurt.