Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 07/02/2025News: North Carolina Superior Court finds that race was a significant, impermissible factor in the death sentence for Hasson Bacote, and in decisions by prosecutors in multiple counties to strike Black jurors from capital cases. 1/3 344
Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The lead prosecutor in Bacote’s case described Black defendants in a capital case as “predators of the African plain" and made similar remarks even after being admonished by a judge. 2/3 223