But black defendants were convicted in the highest numbers.

The case involved a black defendant who had been convicted of murder by an all-white jury in Delaware.

The reports, released last week, said that black and Hispanic defendants often received tougher sentences than whites.

At the most general level, though, what little effect the defendant's race appeared to have on the sentencing rate operated in favor of black defendants.

That black defendants fare differently depending on the race of their victim is well known.

After a wait of a couple of days, he was questioned for a case involving a black defendant.

Some of them say the prosecutors are framing the Hispanic and black defendants.

Before this, they had been allowed to testify only in cases involving black defendants.

Few people had ever worried about black defendants getting decent treatment by the police or the press.

These legal cases often created an ambiguous legal space, even if they did not always side in favor of the black defendants.