The Minority Law Student Association: The Minority Law Students Association

The Minority Law Students Association (MLSA) submits this brief in support of the Petitioner. The Minority Law Students Association was created to provide law students of color with a united forum to promote key issues that confront all minorities. MLSA maintains an interest in guarding against racial discrimination in all areas of the law. Therefore, MLSA has a substantial interest in the outcome of this litigation.

SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT

There is a deeply rooted stereotype that those of color are inferior to Caucasians. This has been in place since slavery, while racism is not as obvious as it once was it is still corrupting our society. When President Obama was speaking at an ABC Town Hall about the Black Lives Matter movement he said, “It’s

The Civil Rights Movement brought about great change and many people thought blacks would one day be treated as complete equals, this was a fantasy. There will always be racism, maybe not extreme racism, but always systematic beliefs that one race is better than another. In the 21st century racism isn’t as much of a public threat, but is still an issue within the criminal justice system and is now known as institutional racism. Although, the Court has worked hard to eradicate racism in the criminal justice system and allow review under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), if there is a clerical mistake or a mistake arising from oversight or omission whenever one is found in a judgment, order, or other part of the record.

In Mr. Buck’s case, the credibility and biases that Mr. Quijano had as an “expert,” encouraged jurors to follow their implicit bias in finding that Mr. Buck had an increased likelihood of dangerousness in the future. The fact that Mr. Quijano was the defense’s expert magnified the effect of his testimony. Due to the defense counsel’s decision to introduce Mr. Quijano’s testimony against his own client, the court should hold that Mr. Buck’s circumstance falls under Fed. R. Civ. P.

Blacks were thought to have thicker skin and thicker skulls than whites. Leading to the belief that they were less sensitive to pain and less able to think abstractly. Even Abraham Lincoln believed that they were inferior to that of the white man, once stating “There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white