sits in the jury box can be impartial and fair. The courts also want a person that will decide the outcome of the case based on the facts. In reality is there any person that will not allow personal experience and opinions to effect their decisions. This still does not mean that law is fundamentally sexist. This simple means that people are. If there is a sexist outcome to a case there are really only 12 people that you can blame.Now I say that there are only 12 people that you can blame, but that is not exactly true. I believe that lawyers in our country have become very good at playing with the law and with the emotions of jury. Simple examples of this are the Rodney King case and the OJ Simpson case. In both of these cases a criminal trial was marred with stereotypes and opinion. In one case that King was accused of being on drugs and being the fact that he was black and from the “wrong side of town” the defense attorneys used this idea to fog the facts of the case. In Simpson case the defense used the idea that police were trying to frame a black man. Both of these cases were decided on things other than the facts of the case. The question is, was it the racism of the jury, the layers, or the law? We will never know the answer to that question just the outcome of the trial. In both of these cases there was a racist outcome, but neither one of these cases shows that law is racist rather the member s of the court were.A great argument for the idea that law is blind is that most of the rights the women have received in recent history have been achieved through law. Women have been mistreated in our system for years, it has not been until recently women started to receive equal protection under the law. Now that women have this right he sky is the limit as to how far women want to go. Discrimination laws have been past even though they were fought hard in the courts. Women now have recourse if they feel that...
