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Racial Disparities Persist After Marijuana Decriminalization


A flowering marijuana plant at the gLeaf medical marijuana facility. (Photo: Alex Scribner/VPM News)
When Virginia Democrats moved to decriminalize marijuana last year, lawmakers pitched the move as a first step at addressing long-standing racial disparities in drug arrests.
But a new VPM analysis of court records since the policy went into effect shows Black individuals in Virginia are still nearly four times more likely than white people to face summons over marijuana possession despite similar usage rates.
Around 50% of people logged for marijuana possession offenses that occured in Virginia from July 1, 2020 through Jan. 11, 2021 were African Americans. Roughly 20% of the state’s population is Black. ....

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Virginia Judge Won't Try Black Man in Courtroom Lined With White Portraits


Virginia Judge Won’t Try Black Man in Courtroom Lined With White Portraits
David Bernhard, a circuit court judge, wrote in his decision that the display of portraits of white judges “is based on a non-racial principle, yet yields a racial result.”
Portraits of judges hanging in a courtroom of the Fairfax Circuit Court in 2015.Credit.Pool by Jahi Chikwendiu
Published Jan. 1, 2021Updated Jan. 2, 2021
When a Black man appears in a Virginia courtroom this month to stand trial on charges of eluding the police, assaulting an officer and other crimes, he will face a scene that defendants in that room have not experienced in decades: The portraits of white judges will no longer line the walls. ....

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David Bernhard, Va. judge, orders portraits of White judges removed before Black man's trial


“… the Court is concerned the portraits may serve as unintended but implicit symbols that suggest the courtroom may be a place historically administered by whites for whites, and that thus others are of a lesser standing in the dispensing of justice,” he continued. “The Defendant’s constitutional right to a fair jury trial stands paramount over the countervailing interest of paying homage to the tradition of adorning courtrooms with portraits that honor past jurists.”
The ruling follows a request to remove the portraits contained in a motion from Terrance Shipp Jr., who is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 4 on charges of eluding police, assaulting a police officer and other counts, The Washington Post reported. ....

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