"If you represent a black defendant, you know he is at greater risk than a white defendant."

White plaintiff, white defendant, everybody's white here but the judge.

He said people were looking for the great white defendant, the great white criminal.

One of the few white defendants, a man who happened to have a mixed-race child, was sentenced to more than 300 years in prison.

The case, involving a black woman and white defendants, had racial currents that remained muted during much of the trial.

This analysis also showed that black defendants were 1.1 times more likely than white defendants to receive the death penalty.

The last death penalty in this county for a white defendant was forty years ago.

You tell me: Have we ever asked for a death sentence against a white defendant with no prior violence?

At the time he said: "We have more black defendants in this courthouse than white defendants.

We know that in state trials black defendants are four times more likely to be sentenced to death than white defendants.