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Should we use this forum to discuss the Gates incident and Prez Obama's response

By Douglas A. Berman

I fear what might happen if we open up this forum to a general discussion of the arrest of Harvard prof Henry Louis Gates and President Obama's discussion of the event at his Wednesday press conference. And, of course, none of the formal aspects of the Gates incident and Obama's response has anything to do directly with sentencing law and policy. Nevertheless, race and class are huge aspects of sentencing law and policy, and the lead story this morning on Politico is this piece, headlined "President Obama steps on third rail of race."   Thus, I figured it might be worth seeing what SL&P readers might want to say about the topic.  Let's all try to keep it civil, folks.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 24, 2009 (boomark / email).