Race matching alone does not grant defense attorneys license to raise bias

Evidence

Drawing attention to bias in criminal defense is complex and must be handled with care. As a White woman, Andrea has to understand that anything she says about the subject can easily come across as condescending. As an African American man, Mortimer has to understand that he will not automatically have permission to tread on this ground just because his client is also African American. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 695

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader claim in the chapter that implicit bias exists even among progressives; echoes the discussion of Howitt and Owusu-Bempah research where race matching still carries assimilation assumptions.