Originally Posted by Lester Burnham

Agreed. He killed a black dude, end of story. In this country, it will be hard to get meaningful conviction. Stay out of Cali when the verdict comes...especially the Bay Area.

If that was a blond, blue eyed kid from the suburbs, he would fry...

The race and class of the victim has a much larger stake in whether the suspect will do time. Kill a black male..you got good chances. Kill someone that looks like he stars in a boy band (or god forbid, I young white female), you will go down...