The sentence isn’t relevant to the jury bias discussion (unless the jury is involved in sentencing in the UK?)
> We also have to ask - if the biases in that study were flipped, if White jurors were far more likely to convict BME defendants, and pardon White defendants, and BME jurors were the more even-handed ones, would this not be trumpeted as conclusive evidence of racism?
Yes, but why is this relevant? That’s not the case in the statistics you cited.
My comment was pointing out that there are multiple possible (probably simultaneous) causes for the jury statistics.
> We also have to ask - if the biases in that study were flipped, if White jurors were far more likely to convict BME defendants, and pardon White defendants, and BME jurors were the more even-handed ones, would this not be trumpeted as conclusive evidence of racism?
Yes, but why is this relevant? That’s not the case in the statistics you cited.
My comment was pointing out that there are multiple possible (probably simultaneous) causes for the jury statistics.