Same Crime, Different Time: Sentencing Disparities in the Deep South & A Path Forward Under the Fourteenth Amendment

From the introduction:

“Although racial discrimination in the Deep South is not the outright focus of this Note—many other scholars have tackled this subject—it remains an underlying ugly truth that is woven into the conversation throughout. Rather than illuminate an already expansive area of jurisprudence, the Author has sought to address racial disparities in sentencing through an alternative lens—one that might be more palatable to state courts unwilling to reflect honestly about racial inequities in criminal sentencing. That approach is through arguing an alternative method of challenging convictions: not on the basis of racial discrimination, but instead based on geographic discrimination. ”