The Fight for Race Justice

An urgent call for systemic reform, exposing the deep-rooted judicial lawlessness that perpetuates discrimination against minorities within the American legal framework.

Press Coverage

PRESS COVERAGE

Exposing Injustice: Black Author Exposes Racial Disparities in the American Justice System

BlackNews.com feature on Race Justice and the case it makes against disparities in the American justice system.

PRESS COVERAGE

Petition Launched to Repeal Supreme Court Ruling on Batson v. Kentucky

Coverage of the petition Rogers Hicks launched calling for the repeal of the Batson v. Kentucky ruling, a case discussed directly in the book.

PRESS COVERAGE

After 12 Years Wrongfully Imprisoned, Three People Confess in the Benjamin Castricone Case

BlackNews.com coverage of the Castricone case, further detailed below.

Case Advocacy

CASE ADVOCACY

The Benjamin Castricone Case

In 1991, Benjamin Castricone was convicted of an armed robbery in Buffalo and served twelve years in prison. Three men have since sworn under oath that they, not Castricone, committed the crime, and a CPL 440.10 motion is now seeking to vacate his conviction, citing fingerprint evidence that never matched him, uncertain cross-racial eyewitness identifications, and two all-white juries. Rogers Hicks, Castricone's cousin, has pursued the case for over three decades.

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CASE ADVOCACY

The Lula Baity Case

In October 2003, 86-year-old Lula Baity was forcibly and involuntarily removed from the Buffalo apartment she had lived in for forty years, after a caseworker falsely reported her as confused, disoriented, and unable to care for herself. She was confined to a locked nursing home unit and medicated against her will for ten days before being transferred, then held until a Writ of Habeas Corpus won her freedom in January 2004. Ms. Baity passed away on May 9, 2006, without ever having her case heard by a jury.

The Lula Baity Case Petition