Malicious Prosecution Has Kansas City Native, Lanardo Myrick Looking For Answers

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Dec. 21, 2020 - PRLog -- Lanardo Myrick convicted of several crimes openly wonders if he had been white and wealthy, how would it go. He has began to research the laws and circumstances surround each of his cases. Many ask why, since he has been freed for over 10 years. He has been questioning the reason why his public/court appointed attorney pressured him to plead guilty. Why.

He turns to writings like the Vera Evidence Brief. Please read...

Summary
The over-representation of black Americans in the nation's justice system is well documented. Black men comprise about 13 percent of the male population, but about 35
percent of those incarcerated. One in three black men born today can expect to be incarcerated in his lifetime, compared to one in six Latino men and one in 17 white men.
Black women are similarly impacted: one in 18 black women born in 2001 is likely to be incarcerated sometime in her life, compared to one in 111 white women. The underlying reasons for this dis-proportionate representation are rooted in the history of the United States and perpetuated by current practices within the nation's justice system. This brief presents an overview of the ways in which America's history of racism and oppression continues to manifest in the criminal justice system, and a summary of research demonstrating how the system perpetuates the disparate treatment of black people. The evidence presented here helps account for the hugely disproportionate impact of mass incarceration on millions of black people, their families, and their communities.
This brief explains that:› Discriminatory criminal justice policies and practices have historically and unjustifiably targeted black people since the Reconstruction Era, including Black Codes, vagrancy laws, and convict leasing, all of which were used to continue post-slavery control over newly-freed people. ›› This discrimination continues today in often less overt ways, including through disparity in the enforcement of seemingly race-neutral laws. For example, while rates of drug use are similar across racial and ethnic groups, black people are arrested and sentenced on drug charges at much higher rates than white people. ›› Bias by decision makers at all stages of the justice process disadvantages black people. Studies have found that they are more likely to be stopped by the police, detained pretrial, charged with more serious crimes, and sentenced more harshly than white people... Read the rest at https://www.vera.org/downloads/publications/for-the-recor...

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