Judge’s Rulings Adverse to Black Defendant Did Not Breach Racial Justice Act—C.A.

A man convicted of second degree murder has failed in his effort to persuade the Court of Appeal for this district that he’s entitled to a reversal on the ground that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark S. Arnold violated the California Racial Justice Act of 2020 by such means as portraying him “as a Black criminal” and his victim as a “law abiding white female” who was “totally respectable” when she was actually a prostitute.